Tom Girardi, the once-lauded mass tort plaintiffs lawyer and founder of Los Angeles-based Girardi Keese, was sentenced Tuesday by a judge to more than seven years in federal prison.

“Instead of fighting against the powerful, he was the one with the power,” U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton of the Central District of California told a courtroom filled with lawyers, spectators and victims at Girardi's sentencing hearing. “For someone who was a champion for the little guy, I saw no supporting letters from the little guy.”

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