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Criminal

Dec. 19, 2024

Observers think Girardi will get prison sentence, even if he doesn't serve it

Friday's scheduled sentence hearing could be delayed as Tom Girardi's federal public defenders argued that the 85-year old's physical health is severely deteriorating while his diagnosed dementia is at a state beyond the Bureau of Prisons' capability to adequately treat.

The mental health of convicted and disbarred plaintiffs' attorney Thomas V. Girardi remains the center point of his two-year, $15 million wire fraud case that could culminate this week in either a lifetime sentence behind prison bars or the bed of a medical care facility.

However, Friday's scheduled sentence hearing in Los Angeles could be delayed as Girardi's federal public defenders, led by Charles J. Snyder, made a sentencing position that the 85-year old's phys...

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