Girardi Hurls Expletive at Prosecutor After Voicemail Played (1)

Sept. 13, 2023, 6:17 PM UTCUpdated: Sept. 13, 2023, 7:48 PM UTC

Indicted and disbarred attorney Thomas Girardi said “fuck you” to a prosecutor from his seat on the third day of a hearing to determine whether he is competent to stand trial on wire fraud charges.

The outburst came as the prosecutor played voicemails he’d dredged up from the days just before and just after Girardi’s lawyers began claiming he was incompetent to face charges and had “no appreciation” for the allegations lodged against him in December 2020.

“Don’t be bad to me. I’m a nice guy. I don’t want to have any problems with anybody,” Girardi said in a December ...

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