thank you for watching my Channel Please Subscribe and like now back to the news Tom gerardi has been found guilty You' embezzling more than $15 million from clients of his now defun law firm gerardi and keys after less than a full day of deliberations a federal jury presented its verdict at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse Tuesday the former attorney and estranged husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hill star Erica Jane was found guilty on all four counts of wire fraud which each carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison he will be sentenced in December gerardi was disbarred in July 2022 and indicted the following February during the 13 dat trial Federal prosecutors told the jury that the once revered California lawyer and a decad long Ponzi scheme by stealing and misappropriating tens of millions of dollars of his client settlements they said gerardi 885 would use the money to pay back other clients and found a luxurious life for himself and Jane 53 his Federal public offenders however insisted that the firm's former Chief Financial Officer and Gerard's co-defendant Chris Cayman was to blame for the missing and misappropriated money they claimed gerardi who was diagnosed with late onset Alzheimer's disease and dementia in March 2021 was incompetent and used as a pawn however gerardi was found fit to stand trial and took the stand last week to deny any wrongdoing the last thing I would do would be to take someone's money he testified I wouldn't think of it gerardi insisted he didn't intentionally ever tell anyone the wrong thing and claimed Cayman was very clever and stealing millions of dollars s