Tom Girardi's former CFO will remain in jail while defending himself on a federal wire fraud charge.
A Times investigation draws on newly revealed records about Tom Girardi’s legal practice, opening a window onto the secretive world of private judges.
Kamon’s defense attorney, Jack DiCanio, said in court that his client was not hiding or plotting an escape: he purchased a home in the Bahamas in his name, told friends and family of his plan to move overseas and made regular trips between the U.S. and the Caribbean nation. “When you take a critical look at each of the facts,” said DiCanio, “I think you find they are all consistent with someone wanting to start a new life, as opposed to someone wanting to hide from law enforcement.”Black men have been disproportionately disciplined by the agency that regulates California’s legal profession.
“All of these acts were done in his own name, in a jurisdiction where it’s very easy for the government to extradite him back to the U.S.,” he added.Prosecutors emphasized that Kamon could have made his “fresh start” in Nevada, where he once owned a home, or Maryland, where a relative lives. Instead, he wired $2 million to the Bahamas and $700,000 to Hungary, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Ali Moghaddas.
“And a home he owns outright in Bahamas,” Moghaddas added. “He’s already acted on his intent to flee.”
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