Super Punch: "Tom Girardi funneled more than $1 million in gifts and payments to an investigator at the State Bar of California and the investigator’s wife"

Friday, March 10, 2023

"Tom Girardi funneled more than $1 million in gifts and payments to an investigator at the State Bar of California and the investigator’s wife"

[The investigator] was fired in 2015 but later sued the agency for wrongful termination and received a $400,000 settlement.
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Other State Bar employees and members of the agency’s governing board also secretly took gifts and other perks
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Even when complaints against Girardi were referred outside the agency because of acknowledged conflicts of interest, top bar officials and staffers continued to meddle in their handling