Girardi’s Incompetency Claim Undercut by Timing and an Expletive

Disbarred and indicted plaintiffs’ lawyer Thomas Girardi is scheduled to appear on Wednesday before the same federal judge who last week rejected claims he’s not competent to stand trial, as the focus turns to the next steps in his criminal fraud cases pending in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Judge Josephine L. Staton of the Central District of California in an order unsealed on Dec. 5 found Girardi’s purported denial of knowledge of the charges and his failure to remember those charges once reminded of them “is wholly lacking in credibility.”

The judge announced her ruling in a Dec. 2 court ...