Why a special tactical unit from the FBI raided a building owned and exclusively used by the husband?

With all that is happening in the case of the husband of a Housewife, we might finally find out why a special tactical unit from the FBI raided a building owned and exclusively used by the husband, and why at the time it was said to be related to the Vegas shooter.

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Girardi Gained Their Trust, But Left Them With Regret

Law360 (January 19, 2021, 4:28 PM EST) — In an airy conference room overlooking downtown San Francisco, celebrity trial lawyer Thomas V. Girardi looked into Kathy Ruigomez’s sleepless eyes and told her everything was going to be all right.

Nobody had said that to Ruigomez in the month since a natural gas pipeline explosion incinerated her home and left her 19-year-old son, Joe Ruigomez, burned and comatose. The September 2010 blast killed eight people, including Joe’s girlfriend, sending flames high into the sky above their San Bruno, California, neighborhood.

Now, in an interview a decade later, Kathy Ruigomez wondered if Girardi knew he was lying when he spoke those words.

Girardi had seemed different from other lawyers, whose shills hounded Ruigomez in the hospital cafeteria and jockeyed like salesmen to take up her family’s valuable claims against the utility company responsible for the blast, Pacific Gas and Electric.

Girardi wore an impeccable suit and a disarming smile that was so contagious, it drew a smile out of Ruigomez for the first time since the explosion. She knew the Los Angeles plaintiffs attorney had beaten PG&E before; she had seen “Erin Brockovich,” the blockbuster film that immortalized the $333 million settlement he’d wrung out of the company in 1996.

Let me take care of all of the legal stuff, Girardi told her. You just focus on healing. Ruigomez signed a retainer agreement days later.

As Girardi had promised, things quickly began looking up. He brought in top medical specialists to help Joe, who awakened from his coma.

Girardi visited the young man regularly to stand by his bedside and encourage him. The attorney began to feel like part of the family. For years after the family reached an eight-figure settlement against PG&E, Girardi kept watch over many of the settlement funds and stayed in touch with Joe, who revered him.

Ruigomez didn’t think anything of Girardi’s frequent visits with her son. But that changed when the family finally asked Girardi to turn over the money.

“It’s kind of disturbing that he wanted to see [Joe] face to face when he was basically stealing his money,” Ruigomez said. “It’s kind of a little, you know — very unsettling.”

Ruigomez is among numerous former clients who have discovered that Girardi, their celebrated advocate, took much of the money he won for them and spent it. – Source