Girardi Requests 2025 Trial That Prosecutors Say Is ‘Untenable’

Lawyers for disbarred plaintiffs attorney Thomas Girardi requested a trial date that’s more than a year from now, and 11 months after the date the prosecution requested, saying Monday that Girardi’s “universally recognized” cognitive impairment and need for accommodations means formulating his defense will take longer.

The US Attorney’s Office would like to go to trial on March 12, 2024, while Girardi’s attorneys proposed a Feb. 11, 2025 trial date, according to status reports both sides filed on Jan. 8. The later date is “untenable,” prosecutors argue, because the delay “will inevitably lead to renewed assertions of incompetence” and then ...