"Lira was a long-time attorney at Girardi's now-defunct law firm and helped obtain a historic $7.5-million payout for a group of Indonesian widows and orphans in 2020. After Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board, Girardi and Lira's lawsuit held Boeing accountable for the 737 Max's faulty design and the company's failure to properly disclose problems with the aircraft's automated flight-control system."
"In June, Lira pleaded guilty in Illinois federal court to one count of contempt of court for defying a Chicago judge's order concerning the distribution of settlement funds. After Judge Thomas M. Durkin ordered that withheld payments be sent to clients immediately, Lira continued to cover for Girardi, who failed to distribute the funds. He will begin serving his sentence in February."
David Lira, a former attorney at Tom Girardi's defunct law firm and Girardi's son-in-law, was sentenced to four months in prison for covering up withheld settlement payments. Lira helped secure a $7.5 million payout for Indonesian widows and orphans after the 2018 Lion Air Flight 610 crash, while Girardi misappropriated roughly $3 million of those funds, partly to support a lavish lifestyle with his wife, Erika Jayne. Girardi received a seven-year prison sentence for stealing from clients. Lira pleaded guilty to one count of contempt after defying a judge's order to distribute withheld payments; other charges were dropped under a plea deal.
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