Former attorney Tom Girardi appears at the U.S. “What you saw in this case is, for years, the defendant was running a Ponzi scheme.” For nearly two hours Monday, Deputy Public Defender Charles Snyder pushed back on the government’s case, referring to his 85-year-old client as an “elderly man with cognitive decline” and laying the blame for a massive case …
Former attorney Tom Girardi appears Tuesday morning outside a Los Angeles courthouse for the first day of his federal criminal trial. Scott Paetty said Girardi “lied to his clients, stole from them, violated their trust, broke the law.” Those clients had all turned to him in moments of tragedy — a burn victim, a widow whose husband died in a …
