Dive Brief:
- Christopher Kamon, the former CFO of the now bankrupt law firm of Girardi & Keese, was arrested on Saturday and charged with wire fraud, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
- Kamon committed the wire fraud in September 2020, according to the complaint, when he was still working at the firm.
- In July, Kamon was sued along with a number of other named defendants alleging the law firm was a “rackateering enterprise” that had stolen more than $100 million from its clients, according to the complaint filed July 7 with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The other defendants included Erika Jayne, the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star, and estranged wife of Girardi & Keese co-founder Tom Girardi,.
Dive Insight:
Kamon’s arrest is the latest in a slew of mounting headaches for the firm. Girardi and Keese was placed in Chapter 7 bankruptcy by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell after a group of creditors who said they were allegedly owed millions of dollars by Tom Girardi and his firm filed involuntary bankruptcy petitions, according to a Jan. 14. 2021 Reuters report.
Kamon, the firm’s former finance chief, began working at Girardi & Keese as an accounts payable clerk in 2000 and worked his way up to CFO, according to a Tuesday Los Angeles Times report. In his role, Kamon worked…
