Lawyers are convicted after failing to transfer R$239,000 from the lawsuit won to the client The conviction of the Cremasco law firm and lawyers José Antonio Cremasco and Thais Proença Cremasco for failing to transfer R$239,551.93 to a client exposed accusations between father and daughter about who would be responsible for the amounts received in labor claims. ?? Understand: according to the decision, a worker won a lawsuit, but did not receive compensation. After discovering that the amount had already been raised by the office and receiving no response from the lawyers, he went to court, which ordered the Cremascos to return the amount. ? Click here to follow the g1 Campinas channel on WhatsApp In the decision published on Friday (3), the Court ordered the two lawyers and the firm to pay the amount of labor compensation to which the client is entitled, in addition to R$20,000 for moral damages. The Civil Police are also investigating other cases. In an interview with EPTV, a TV Globo affiliate, Thais held José Antonio, whose daughter she is, responsible for the alleged appropriations. José Antonio stated, in a note, that his daughter was the one who managed the accounts during the period in which the problems occurred. What Thais says Thais and José Antonio Cremasco were ordered to pay the worker Reproduction/EPTV/Disclosure She denies having appropriated the amounts and states that, in the case of the conviction and in other similar cases, the money was not deposited into her account, saying that she found out about the problem through her own clients. She maintains that the contracts were with her father's office, José Antonio Cremasco, and that she has no longer worked at the office since 2024, after breaking off relations due to customer complaints. It states that José Antonio was the one who determined the account to which the amounts from the processes should be sent. According to her, the team's lawyers transferred the funds to the account indicated by him, and it was solely up to the father to transfer them to the clients. She says that, when clients complained about lack of payment, she took the questions to her father, who replied that "it's my process, the client is mine, pass the client on to me and I'll resolve it". She states that she never imagined that her father could be appropriating clients' money, stating: "I never, as a lawyer, as a daughter, imagined that he could be appropriating clients' money." It states that, before the breakup of the relationship in 2024, José Antonio would have signed a document acknowledging responsibility for debts owed to clients. He says that, although it is "very difficult to recognize this as a daughter", he considers it "very clear" that José Antonio committed misappropriation. She also states that the relationship of trust with her father caused her to sign blank documents and lend her name, believing that he would never commit this type of conduct. In her words, this confidence led her to believe that he "would never be capable of committing all these atrocities". Finally, he informs that he made himself available to help the alleged victims, proposing to request the attachment of legal fees from future lawsuits by the office to compensate clients. What José Antonio says He attributes responsibility for the alleged appropriations to his daughter, Thais Proença Cremasco, stating that, between 2022 and 2024, she "held full management of both the current account of my business account and her own". He says that, even without having the financial management of the office during this period, he has been forwarding and paying for client processes, including in situations where the amounts were not deposited into his business account or made available to him. It states that Thais has no longer been linked to Advocacia Cremasco since November 2024 and that there is a judicial accountability process relating to the period in which she allegedly managed the finances. He maintains that there is no news of clients who stopped receiving amounts in processes prior to 2022 or after 2025, restricting the problems to the period in which he attributes financial management to his daughter. He informs that, in August 2025, he hired a professional specialized in office administration, without a personal relationship with him, to financially organize the receipts and avoid new problems. He states that the Judiciary continues to issue withdrawal permits in Thais' name, although, according to him, the special power of attorney for receipt was revoked when she left the office, in November 2024. Finally, he recognizes responsibility for the name of the office and says that it is available to all clients. It says it is paying customers in arrears as it receives new amounts. Understand the case that led to the conviction According to the decision of judge Felipe Guinsani, of the 7th Civil Court of Campinas, a man hired the Cremasco office to defend him in a labor action that was processed in the 10th Labor Court of Campinas. The worker won the case, worth R$319,402.58. Under the contract, 25% would remain with the firm as legal fees, while R$239,551.93 would be passed on to the client. According to the decision, the man discovered, through a court order, that the payment had already been made to an account related to the office. After notifying the lawyers extrajudicially and receiving no response, he filed a lawsuit to receive the amount. In the sentence, the judge understood that the lawyers raised the values ??of the labor claim and failed to pass them on to the client, retaining an amount greater than that stipulated in the contract. In addition to this case, the Public Security Secretariat reported that the Civil Police is investigating other alleged cases of appropriation of funds intended for workers in processes under the responsibility of the same office and the same lawyers. There are at least nine investigations, one of which was opened in 2025 following a complaint sent by the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo. Other cases Felipe said he was one of the victims after winning the labor case Reproduction/EPTV EPTV spoke to two other alleged victims of the situation. Street vendor Felipe Costa Araújo suffered an accident at the painting company where he worked, was fired and filed a labor lawsuit. He won the case in 2018, but began to suspect that the part he was entitled to of the amount received by the Cremasco office was not transferred. "I started calling them and wanting the money and they were just fooling me, fooling me, fooling me. And then I got tired and got another lawyer to see what was happening. When I went to see, they had already received the money", said Felipe. Edson Vidotti, on the other hand, filed a labor lawsuit against the Municipal Development Company of Campinas (Emdec) in 2021 and won. The company made payments in six installments, one of which exceeded R$200,000, but the office did not make the transfer. "I went there and they said: 'no more money, no more money'. Several times. They didn't serve us correctly", he reported. According to lawyer Danilo Andrietta, who defends Edson, the Cremasco office transferred only R$55,000, retaining around R$370,000, which would be his right after deducting fees. "Their justification was that they were having operational problems and had difficulty identifying which resource belonged to which client and that, because of this, they had not been able to make the transfer. A justification that didn't make any sense," said Danilo. 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