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Indonesian families of Lion Air crash victims suffer again, ‘predatory’ lawyer evades jail

For Indonesian families who lost loved ones in the 2018 Lion Air crash that killed 189 people, the latest development in the US courts has deepened their pain that justice remains out of reach. Keith Griffin, a Californian lawyer who worked with disgraced Hollywood celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi in compensation suits related to the crash, was sentenced by a federal court in Chicago last week to one…

Indonesian families of Lion Air crash victims suffer again, ‘predatory’ lawyer evades jail

Indonesian families of Lion Air crash victims are once again suffering, as a "predatory" lawyer evades jail time in the US. Keith Griffin, a California-based lawyer who represented some of the victims' families in compensation suits against Boeing, was sentenced to just one day in prison last week. This decision leaves many families feeling that justice remains elusive.

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