Four Girardi Keese Lawyers Named as Targets as Prosecution Rests

The federal government is investigating four senior lawyers who worked at the now-bankrupt Girardi Keese firm, an IRS special agent testified Monday shortly before federal prosecutors rested their case against Thomas V. Girardi.

Robert Finnerty, Christopher Aumais, Keith Griffin, and Girardi’s son-in-law David Lira have received target letters from the federal government, meaning they could be charged with a crime, said IRS Special Agent Ryan Roberson, although he didn’t specify when the letters were sent. Prosecutors rested their case at 11:30 a.m., after nearly two weeks of testimony in the US District Court for the Central District of California.

Roberson’s ...