The trustee presiding over the chapter case of Thomas Girardi and his now-defunct regulation agency filed a few lawsuits final week in opposition to jewellery shops that acquired “fraudulent transfers” from Girardi Keese within the years earlier than it was compelled out of business.
After a reported $250,000 was spent by the agency on Thomas’ now-estranged spouse, Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne, the lawsuits are demanding the jewelers return the funds because the trustee makes an attempt to pay again victims and different collectors.
In keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by Radar On-line on December 27, the trustee filed a lawsuit in opposition to M.M. Jewelers (aka/dba MM Jewelers), claiming Thomas paid the corporate $209,000 in two separate funds — although his agency was in a “precarious monetary state and was not paying collectors” on the time — and one other in opposition to Dan Levy Nice Gems for $40,000 value of things for Erika.
“The world finally realized that Girardi Keese was nothing greater than a bootleg and felonious enterprise operated to line the fairly massive pockets of Thomas, his spouse, and quite a few cohorts. Whereas the Trustee continues to analyze the magnitude of the fraud that spanned a long time, it’s apparent that tens of millions of {dollars} of shopper funds had been stolen and diverted to fund the lavish life of Thomas and different non-deserving events,” the paperwork acknowledged.
“Girardi Keese started a scientific technique of draining the accessible money, usually occasions consisting of stolen shopper belief funds, by, amongst different issues, making distributions to sure most well-liked collectors or third events from funds of Girardi Keese’s property,” the swimsuit continued. “Throughout the seven-year interval previous to the Petition Date, with the help of numerous companions, staff, and relations, Thomas and Girardi Keese conspired by function and design to abscond and secrete the property of Girardi Keese for the aim of defrauding Girardi Keese’s collectors.”
Particularly in regard to M.M. Jewelers, the trustee wrote, “With respect to the Fraudulent Transfers, these had been on account of luxurious jewellery bought for, or that solely benefitted, Thomas and Erika Girardi aka Erika Jayne, and had no relation to the operation of, and didn’t profit, Girardi Keese.”
Ronald Richards reported the information this week simply as he shared a doc that detailed precisely how the $25 million transferred from Girardi Keese to Erika’s firm, EJ International, was spent.
As RHOBH followers could know, Erika is at the moment being sued for $25 million by the trustee, who hopes to get well the cash to repay victims of Thomas’ fraud.
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