An attorney for Tom Girardi grilled a former accounting executive at his firm on Tuesday about falsified signatures on checks, coding changes in ledgers and secret payments into a branch bank accounting—all of which he said happened without his client’s knowledge.

Federal public defender Charles Snyder’s cross-examination of Norina Rouillard, who worked at Girardi Keese from 2003 until its collapse in 2020, lasted all morning and featured emails and checks in which she and Christopher Kamon, the firm’s former head of accounting, and a handful of law partners, managed much of the firm’s finances.