Overview

• U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton ordered Girardi to serve seven years and three months in prison, pay $2.3 million in restitution and a $35,000 fine
• Girardi must surrender to federal authorities by July 17 to begin his sentence
• A federal jury convicted him in August on four counts of wire fraud for misappropriating more than $15 million from clients between 2010 and 2020
• Victims included burn survivors and relatives of the 2018 Lion Air crash, whose settlement payments were diverted to personal and entertainment costs
• Despite an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, the court found Girardi competent for sentencing and his former law firm Girardi Keese collapsed into bankruptcy proceedings