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Criminal

Aug. 16, 2024

IRS agent is last witness against Girardi, 1st defense witness called

The first defense witness for disbarred attorney Tom Girardi, his neurologist, was called out of order, delaying the prosecutors' plan to rest their case. But the last prosecution witness, an IRS specialist, testified afterward about how money moved from the Girardi Keese client trust account to the operating account.

A federal prosecutor on Thursday pressed Tom Girardi's neurologist, the first defense witness in his $15 million wire fraud trial, about why her evaluations of his cognitive ability focused only on the last three years of his career, before his law firm collapsed in 2020.

The government accused Girardi, now disbarred, of bilking his clients out of millions of dollars in settlement funds from 2010-2020. After seven days of testimony from former clients, attorneys and former emp...

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