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Criminal

Aug. 27, 2024

Tom Girardi's fate is now in jurors' hands

U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton handed the case to the 12-person jury at around 2:30 p.m. Monday.

At 85 and with purported dementia, Tom Girardi seems like a sad figure. But the poor cognitive ability today of the formerly high-flying plaintiffs' attorney does not excuse his willful orchestration of a decade-long scheme that cheated several personal injury clients out of millions of dollars while he was living an extravagant lifestyle.

That was the message prosecutors sought to deliver to jurors on Monday as they wrapped up a three-week trial in which Girardi's former c...

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