A federal judge entered a not-guilty plea Friday for disgraced plaintiffs attorney Tom Girardi, who faces criminal charges of stealing $3 million from his clients’ settlements over a 2018 plane crash.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cummins in Chicago entered the plea at an arraignment hearing held on WebEx. Girardi, of defunct Girardi & Keese in Los Angeles, appeared virtually in a suit and tie alongside his brother, Robert Girardi, who is serving as his conservator, and Seema Ahmad, a federal public defender in the Northern District of Illinois.

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