Erika Jayne's Ex Tom Girardi Breaks Silence On Witness Stand -- DENIES Stealing Clients' Money In Tense Standoff With Prosecutor!
perezhilton.comTom Girardi took the stand in his own defense on Thursday. It’s the first time he’s publicly spoken up in the case of the alleged large-scale fraud he and his law firm carried out.
And things got REALLY testy!! As you’ll no doubt recall, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne‘s estranged husband is the focus of a major lawsuit over the compensation granted to the families of those who died in the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia.
The 85-year-old and his now-shuttered law firm Girardi Keese are accused of winning hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation on behalf of those families, and then cheating them out of the money in a mind-blowing fraud and embezzlement scheme. Related: Erika Jayne Thought About Suicide ‘Many Times’ Amid Tom Girardi Embezzlement Battle On Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times and others, Girardi himself stunningly took the witness stand in his own defense.
His defense lawyers previously contended he was mentally incompetent to go to court due to the ravages of progressive cognitive decline related to his age.
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