December 04, 2023
Prosecutors have asked a California federal judge to find disbarred attorney Tom Girardi, 84, competent to stand trial following a dementia diagnosis, citing a moment during a September cross-examination in which the attorney lashed out against the prosecution as proof of "his appreciation of this case and the allegations lodged against him."
November 20, 2023
Disgraced attorney Thomas Girardi is not faking his mental decline and is unfit to stand trial in a criminal case alleging that he stole tens of millions of dollars from his own vulnerable clients, according to the public defenders representing him in California federal court.
October 30, 2023
Disgraced attorney Thomas Girardi is faking the extent of his mental illness and should be found competent to stand trial for allegedly stealing tens of millions of dollars from his own vulnerable clients, prosecutors have told a California federal judge.
September 13, 2023
Disbarred attorney Thomas Girardi broke his relative silence Wednesday during the third day of a California federal court hearing over his mental competency to quietly swear at a federal prosecutor who was questioning a neuropsychologist about Girardi's mental faculties.
September 12, 2023
A federal prosecutor on Tuesday challenged a University of Southern California neurologist's diagnosis that Tom Girardi suffers from moderate dementia, suggesting during a hearing that she is taking statements by the disbarred attorney and those close to him at face value and not properly considering that he might be faking symptoms.
August 23, 2023
A psychologist testifying at Tom Girardi's competency hearing in California federal court Wednesday said the disbarred attorney may be experiencing mild cognitive impairment but appears to be feigning severe symptoms, such as when he denied having a third wife yet took two calls from her during his exam.
August 22, 2023
After Tom Girardi moved into an assisted living facility's locked-down memory care ward, the 84-year-old disbarred lawyer believed he was at a "work retreat" to take meetings with clients and work on cases, his defense team claimed in new Los Angeles federal court filings.
August 18, 2023
Former celebrity attorney Tom Girardi is mentally competent to stand trial on charges he stole tens of millions of dollars from his firm's clients, prosecutors told a California federal judge Friday, saying the 84-year-old's asserted "symptoms" are exaggerated and were only raised when he needed an "escape hatch."
August 17, 2023
Former celebrity attorney Tom Girardi must appear in court next week for a hearing to determine whether he is mentally competent to stand trial on charges he stole tens of millions of dollars from his firm's clients, a Los Angeles federal judge ruled Thursday.
August 09, 2023
A California federal judge rejected a bid by 84-year-old disbarred Tom Girardi to delay his competency hearing in two weeks to determine whether the former celebrity attorney will face a criminal fraud trial, finding that Girardi did not show why he needed the continuance that was opposed by prosecutors.