Girardi Was ‘Thief-in-Chief’ Prosecutors Say as Trial Closes

Prosecutors emphasized Thomas Girardi’s responsibility as the man with “the name on the door” of his firm who is accountable for massive theft, while his defense portrayed him as “asleep at the wheel,” asking jurors to consider elderly loved ones on the last day of Girardi’s criminal fraud trial.

Assistant US Attorney Ali Moghaddas framed the alleged theft of millions in client settlement funds from Girardi Keese as a Ponzi scheme for the first time during closing arguments Monday for Girardi’s twelve-day criminal trial. The prosecution team punched hard at the defenders’ arguments that ex-CFO Christopher Kamon was solely responsible ...