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

5 minute read

Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline

Amanda Bronstad
staff reporter

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.

NOT FOR REPRINT