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Aug. 18, 2023, 11:43 PM

US Prosecutors Call Girardi’s Incompetency Claim ‘Self-Serving’

Joyce E. Cutler
Joyce E. Cutler
Staff Correspondent

US prosecutors accuse disbarred plaintiffs’ attorney Thomas Girardi of malingering in his bid to avoid trial on criminal charges for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from clients and professionals.

A redacted filing Friday said there’s no evidence Girardi is doing anything other than inflating his condition.

“After decades of lying to clients and misappropriating millions of dollars from Girardi Keese trust accounts, defendant Thomas Vincent Girardi’s house of cards came crashing down at the end of 2020 when he and others at GK were sued by several clients alleging the theft of millions of dollars from their settlement funds,” the ...

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