Girardi Insists Clients Were Paid During Strained Testimony (1)

Thomas V. Girardi took the witness stand Thursday in his criminal trial with testimony that was at times incoherent but insistent on the point that his clients received all the funds that they were due—and if any was held back, it was for reasons like paying medical expenses.

The 85-year-old, whose neurologist says he has dementia, wasn’t expected to testify in his defense until Wednesday afternoon but took the stand for 45 minutes before a jury in the US District Court for the Central District of California. His most coherent testimony was consistent with the picture that his defense team ...