To the editor: I examine Tom Girardi with astonishment (“Tom Girardi — disgraced legal titan, former ‘Real Housewives’ husband — sentenced to 7 years in prison,” June 3). There have been over 200 complaints to the State Bar of California. But the bar was MIA, with “wine-soaked lunches” whereas cash was stolen from shoppers proper below their noses. In distinction, attorneys within the U.Okay. should have full exterior audits of their books. Shopper cash is audited to the final penny. And the auditors themselves are audited, by examiners from the bar’s equal. Therefore, corruption is uncommon.
The bar right here has roused itself to make some minor reforms. Good luck. Attorneys will not be saints, free from temptation. Extra policing is required. I counsel exterior audits of attorneys’ books by licensed public accountants retained by the bar, to obviate conflicts of curiosity. As for the bar’s dereliction of responsibility, heads should roll.
Raymond Freeman, Thousand Oaks
