A federal judge in Los Angeles ordered Tom Girardi to surrender to federal authorities on Jan. 7 and to be transported immediately to a Bureau of Prisons federal medical center in North Carolina for a mental evaluation.

U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton, of the Central District of California, originally had scheduled Friday’s hearing to sentence Girardi, 85, who faces up to 80 years in federal prison after being convicted earlier this year on four wire fraud counts. But, instead, Staton earlier this week ordered both sides to submit briefs on whether she needed to hold a hearing under the rarely used §4244 of Title 18, which states that a judge can sentence a criminal defendant with “a mental disease or defect for the treatment of which he is need of custody for care and treatment in a suitable facility,” such as a hospital.