Samuel Cross, deputy federal public defender, invited the five women and seven men on the jury to see Girardi as a once-mighty lawyer whose later years were marred by progressive dementia ...

The 86-year-old disbarred lawyer, once the most prominent trial attorney in California, will likely spend the rest of his ...

Tom Girardi sentenced to 7 years in prison on four counts of wire fraud. ... Defense attorney Samuel Cross told the judge that, ... Cross said Girardi has no short-term memory to speak of.

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Their last witness was Girardi himself, and one of his lawyers, Samuel Cross, seemed to test his client’s mental acuity for jurors, asking him if his law firm was still open, to which he ...

Tom Girardi sentenced to 7 years in prison on four counts of wire fraud. ... “If he’s in prison, he will not understand why,” defense attorney Samuel Cross told the judge, ...

Tom Girardi exits the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, at 350 W. 1st St., in downtown Los Angeles, on Monday, June 2, 2025. Photo: Amanda Bronstad/ALM Tom Girardi, the ...

Tom Girardi took the stand for his cross-examination Thursday in his long-awaited criminal fraud trial -- despite being diagnosed with late-onset Alzheimer's disease and dementia three years ago.

Neither Girardi's lawyers—Snyder and two other federal public defenders, Samuel Cross and J. Alejandro Barrientos, nor Kamon's attorney, Michael Severo, of the Severo Law Firm in Pasadena ...

Public defender Samuel Cross asked Bravo if Kamon told him to make fake invoices that Girardi Keese would then pay with checks, each for thousands of dollars. "Oh yeah, many, many, many," he said.

Tom Girardi, the disgraced lawyer ... Samuel Cross, appeared to demonstrate what his legal team has been citing as a reason for the case to be thrown out — Girardi's steep cognitive decline.

Girardi indicated he did not wish to waive his right to appear at the evidentiary hearing, the judge wrote. it will be reset. ... according to Samuel Cross, one of Girardi’s attorneys, ...