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Criminal

Aug. 14, 2024

Defense confronts witness with 2020 texts about 'delusional' Girardi

Girardi's defense is that at the time of the alleged wire fraud misconduct, he was in the beginning stages of his 2021-diagnosed, late-onset Alzheimer's disease and dementia and was not in a culpable state of mind to carry out the alleged crimes.

Tom Girardi leaving court last week.

Tom Girardi was delusional, couldn't remember anything, and clients felt he was "losing it mentally," a former Girardi Keese accounting worker wrote in 2020, in texts introduced by the defense Tuesday in his trial on charges of misappropriating $15 million of clients' money.

The former employee, Norina Rouillard, confirmed the texts represented how she felt at the time. The texts and some of her testimony on Tuesday seemed to differ from what she said under direc...

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