The private judging industry needs stronger oversight, CA’s chief justice said, following a Times report on the role for-hire judges played in L.A. attorney Tom Girardi’s suspected swindling of clients out of millions of dollars in settlement money.
Bankruptcy trustees have accused the reality star of concealing assets for her husband and are dispatching investigators to comb through her belongings and accounts.“If I’m reelected, there will be hearings, and there will be legislation,” said State Sen. Tom Umberg , chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Times described Panelli’s role in a $17-million settlement Girardi secured for elderly women who alleged they got cancer from a menopause drug. When some of the women suspected in 2014 that Girardi had not paid them all they were due, his firm blamed Panelli and said the retired justice had ordered them to “hold back” $1 million.
The outgoing chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, Mark Stone , agreed that the private judges’ dealings with Girardi were evidence of an unaddressed problem.
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