Tom Girardi of Girardi Keese. (Courtesy photo) Girardi Keese CFO's Ex Tells Jurors: Firm Funds Paid for My Trips, Home, Allowance
Nicole Rokita, ex-girlfriend of former Girardi Keese CFO Christopher Kamon, is one of two witnesses that Tom Girardi's lawyers insisted were critical to their case.
August 21, 2024 at 09:44 AM
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What You Need to Know
- U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton told lawyers on Tuesday that closing arguments would begin Aug. 26.
- Most of Tuesday's testimony focused on Girardi's two former longtime secretaries: Kim Cory and Shirleen Fujimoto.
- Public defender Charles Snyder struggled to get the former secretaries to confirm an alleged scam or efforts to go around Girardi.
On Tuesday, in the third week of the Tom Girardi criminal trial, a woman testified that her ex-boyfriend, Christopher Kamon, the former accounting head at Girardi Keese, had about a dozen side businesses, including one that provided "portable stripper pole rental services," funded by the law firm's accounts.
Kamon was charged alongside Girardi for stealing $15 million from four Girardi Keese clients. But Nicole Rokita, a defense witness, gave some insight Tuesday into Kamon's "side fraud" of Girardi Keese, testifying that he used a firm credit card for her trips. He used firm funds to purchase her home and bankroll other businesses, some of which involved his friends, such as a salon, restaurant, construction company and an entity called Lawyers for Justice.
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