A federal judge rescheduled Tom Girardi’s sentencing hearing for next month after he was hospitalized for “liver dysfunction” one day before a key hearing on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton, of the Central District of California, set sentencing for June 3, Girardi’s 86th birthday, one day after a key hearing to evaluate whether he should serve his sentence in a prison or medical facility. The mental health hearing was supposed to happen Thursday but, on Wednesday, Girardi’s federal public defenders asked for a continuance after he was transported from his memory care unit at an assisted living facility to an emergency room and was likely to remain hospitalized for several days.