A Burbank entertainment lawyer says he lost millions of dollars in a Ponzi-like scheme that a television executive perpetrated with the help of an estate planning attorney at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
The victim of the alleged scheme, Robert Christopher Chatham, filed a $4.3 million lawsuit on Feb. 26 against Sheppard Mullin and D. Matthew Richardson, a partner in the firm’s Orange County and Los Angeles offices.
The complaint says Richardson helped Mary Carole McDonnell—the CEO of a production company that has produced shows such as It Takes a Killer and I Married a Murderer—lie about her ...
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