Federal prosecutor says former attorney Tom Girardi hurled an insult at him on the third day of a competency hearing. Girardi is accused of embezzling $18 million from clients.
The third day of Tom Girardi’s competency hearing was well underway Wednesday morning when the once formidable trial attorney muttered an insult to the federal prosecutor leading the criminal case against him.
The insult came as Moghaddas was cross-examining Stacey Wood, a forensic neuropsychologist who has opined that Girardi is not competent to stand trial. Girardi was initially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2021 in connection with conservatorship proceedings and now resides in the locked memory ward of an Orange County nursing home. His attorneys maintain he has profound memory problems, making him unable to assist in his own defense and incompetent to go before a jury.
“It’s very difficult for him to learn information and retain it over time,” she said, adding that Girardi would be unable to, or impaired in, effectively assisting his attorneys, undergoing a complex criminal trial, or making key decisions, such as entering a guilty plea. “He remembered his son but not his daughters’ names,” Wood replied. “That’s not that unusual among elderly patients with dementia.”
After an initial meeting at which Wood went over the criminal case against him, she said, a week passed before their next meeting.
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