[Music] [Applause] [Music] Erica Jane was photographed walking to the gym one day after her estranged husband Tom gerardi was found guilty of embezzling more than $15 million through his former Law Firm The Real Housewives of bever Hills star looked downcast as she stepped out in West Hollywood California on Wednesday Jane 53 went makeup free for the outing wearing a black long sleeved shirt gray sweatpants sandals and a baseball cap dot on Tuesday a Los Angeles jury found the reality stars ex guilty of four counts of wire fraud committed at his now defunct firm gerardi and keys gerardi 85 will be sentenced in December and faces up to 20 years in prison for each count in March 2021 Page 6 confirmed the former attorney lost his license to practice law after he was sued for allegedly embezzling money amid his divorce from Jane de in February 2022 a grand jury indicted gerardi Federal prosecutors spoke against the disgraced lawyer during a 13-day trial claiming he was The Mastermind behind a Ponzi scheme from 2010 to 2020 prosecutors argued gerardi would steal funds from his client settlements and use the money to cover his debts they also claimed gerardi stole the money to pay for his and Jane's luxurious lifestyle Tom gerardi built celebrity status and lured in victims by falsely portraying himself as a champion of Justice us attorney Martin Estrada wrote in a doj statement in reality he was a Robin Hood in Reverse stealing from the needy to support of a lavish Hollywood lifestyle today's verdict shows that the game is up we can all now see this defendant for what he was and the victims he callously betrayed public defenders for gerardi argued his former Chief Financial Officer Chris Cayman who was also listed as a co-defendant was responsible for the missing money the defendants used Gerard's March 2021 diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and dementia to argue he was incapable of committing the crimes he was accused of and came and used him as a pawn despite Gerard's condition he was declared competent to stand trial and in denied the allegations against him the last thing I would do would be to take someone's money he told prosecutors last week I wouldn't think of it gerardi also blamed Cayman referring to him as very clever and denying he took client money for his and Jane's benefit gerardi and Jane tied the knot in 2000 in November 2020 the Bravo Liberty filed to divorce gerardi one month before he was accused of fraud