{"id":1833290,"date":"2023-02-02T17:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833290"},"modified":"2023-02-02T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:40:02","slug":"top-dem-donor-charged-with-five-counts-of-wire-fraud-faces-maximum-20-year-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-dem-donor-charged-with-five-counts-of-wire-fraud-faces-maximum-20-year-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Dem Donor Charged With Five Counts of Wire Fraud, Faces Maximum 20-Year Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-dem-donor-charged-with-five-counts-of-wire-fraud-faces-maximum-20-year-sentence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Top-Democrat-Biden-Donor-Faces-20-Years-in-Prison-for-Stealing-millions.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>An ex-lawyer of high profile and top Democrat donor hosted a fundraiser to support President Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\">Joe Biden<\/a> After being indicted by federal grand jury for allegedly embezzling more than $18million from the suffering clients, is currently facing prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department announced that Tom Girardi (83) was arrested in Los Angeles for five counts wire fraud. He could be sentenced to a maximum 20 year federal prison term.<\/p>\n<p>The charges were part of an indictment that accused Girardi of embezzling more than $15 million from clients and using funds to cover his law firm\u2019s payroll and personal expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The case also included charges against Christopher Kamon, the former chief financial officer of Girardi\u2019s LA-based law firm, Girardi Keese, indicating they \u201cdevised, participated in, and executed a scheme to defraud victim clients\u201d The firm was bankrupted in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Eight counts of wire fraud were brought against Girardi and his son-in law David Lira. Kamon was also charged.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors alleged that the trio allegedly stole more than $3million in settlement funds intended for family members of those who were killed in a Boeing airplane crash off the coast Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>The indictments come amid the spectacular downfall of top Democrat donor Girardi, who was once LA\u2019s top attorney, but now faces 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Girardi maintained close ties with powerful Democratic politicians, mayors and governors, members Congress, presidents, and presidential hopefuls.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrat-donor-tied-biden-indicted-allegedly-embezzling-millions-suffering-clients\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>According to the 2020 analysis of the Los Angeles Times, Girardi, his family and employees contributed at least $7.5million in political contributions to candidates or political committees. This included everything from city council races to presidential elections. Most of this money went to Democrats including Biden. Girardi hosted a lavish LA fundraiser during 2020&#8217;s presidential cycle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Girardi has also given thousands of dollars each to Biden, Hillary Clinton, Senator Dianne Feinstein and many other elected officials at the federal, state and local levels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>California Gov. Campaign finance records show that Gavin Newsom was awarded $87,600 by Girardi for his 2018 governorship campaign and $8,500 from Girardi to support his 2014 lieutenant governor campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Girardi and his estranged spouse, \u201cReal Housewives of Beverly Hills\u201d According to election filings, Erika Jayne, reality TV star, donated more than $2million to the National Democratic Party and individual candidate candidates. This was despite Girardi apparently defaulting on high interest loans and having to liquidate his stock portfolio.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Jonathan Club in downtown Los Angeles hosted VP Biden&#8217;s final fundraiser this week. It was hosted in Los Angeles by Tom Girardi, a trial lawyer and husband of a>=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/erikajayne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@erikajayne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeneps\/status\/1126542701782913025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Girardi\u2019s wealth as a high-powered attorney allowed him easy and intimate access to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>But Girardi\u2019s lavish lifestyle steadily came crashing as legal issues worsened, culminating with the recent indictments.<\/p>\n<p>Jayne, the former attorney, is also going through divorce proceedings. Jayne filed for divorce after 21-years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Girardi, 83, was disbarred last year, his firm Girardi Keese filed for bankruptcy, and he\u2019s said to be suffering from dementia and is under a court conservatorship, Entertainment Weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/celebrity\/tom-girardi-husband-indicted-erika-jayne-rhobh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>TRENDING: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/kamala-harris-ripped-after-appearing-to-talk-to-kids-when-video-reveals-who-real-audience-was-watch\/\">Kamala Harris Ripped After Appearing to Talk to Kids When Video Reveals who Real Audience Was \u2013 WATCH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-lawyer of high profile and top Democrat donor hosted a fundraiser to support President Barack Obama Joe Biden After being indicted by federal grand jury for allegedly embezzling more than $18million from the suffering clients, is currently facing prison. The Justice Department announced that Tom Girardi (83) was arrested in Los Angeles for five &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1833293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[9824,3649,16124,6244,6498,6909,17440,4744,6195],"class_list":["post-1833290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-20-year","tag-charged","tag-counts","tag-dem","tag-donor","tag-fraud","tag-maximum","tag-sentence","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}