Criminal
Aug. 21, 2024
Pandemic and failing health caused mounting debt, Girardi's secretary testifies
Shirleen Fujimoto, who worked for Girardi for 26 years, told jurors that clients were calling and emailing daily throughout 2020 to ask about settlement money.
In the months before his law firm collapsed, Tom Girardi was "up to his neck in debt" and using law firm money to pay personal expenses, his longtime secretary testified Tuesday at the former plaintiffs' attorney's federal wire fraud trial in Los Angeles.
Shirleen Fujimoto, who worked for Girardi for 26 years, told the jury that the law firm's problems were complicated by the fact that the pandemic had shuttered courts and businesses, and that Girardi's m...
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