Tom Girardi, his firm and his litigation financiers have been sued for allegedly embezzling funds from settlements that Boeing reached with victims of one of its recent 737 Max 8 air crashes.

The explosive lawsuit, filed by Chicago plaintiffs firm Edelson PC on Wednesday, alleges that Girardi and his firm, Los Angeles-based Girardi Keese, used funds from settlements with Boeing over the 2018 Lion Air crash to pay off litigation financing firms and to continue paying for an “outrageous lifestyle” that included private jets, multiple homes and a $250,000 Lamborghini.

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