{"id":2410,"date":"2024-08-26T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/a-den-of-thieves-jurors-begin-deliberations-in-tom-girardis-criminal-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T23:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:59:01","slug":"a-den-of-thieves-jurors-begin-deliberations-in-tom-girardis-criminal-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/a-den-of-thieves-jurors-begin-deliberations-in-tom-girardis-criminal-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Den of Thieves&#8217;: Jurors Begin Deliberations in Tom Girardi&#8217;s Criminal Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Jurors in the Tom Girardi criminal trial began deliberations on Monday after hearing contrasting descriptions of the famed plaintiffs lawyer: He was a skilled trial lawyer who could put on the \u201ccharm\u201d to get away with lies, or the elderly victim of fraud by his firm\u2019s own accountant.<\/p>\n<p>In a closing argument on Monday morning, prosecutors told jurors that Girardi convinced the outside world with his \u201ccharm\u201d but, on the inside, orchestrated a fraud that began in the 1990s\u2014long before accounting head Christopher Kamon joined Girardi Keese to begin stealing\u00a0tens of millions of dollars from the firm.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurors in the Tom Girardi criminal trial began deliberations on Monday after hearing contrasting descriptions of the famed plaintiffs lawyer: He was a skilled trial lawyer who could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[173,2193,3176,3178,580,3177,2119,342],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-criminal","tag-deliberations","tag-den","tag-girardis","tag-jurors","tag-thieves","tag-tom","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}