San Diego
The defense rested its case Thursday in the fraud and tax evasion trial of Nancy Hoover Hunter. Closing arguments in the lengthy trial will begin today and last three days.
Hunter concluded her testimony Thursday after nine days on the witness stand in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Earl B. Gilliam.
Her attorneys are trying to prove that she was unaware of J. David (Jerry) Dominelli’s fraudulent activities, which led to 1,200 investors losing nearly $90 million when J. David & Co. collapsed in February, 1984.
The defense claims that Hunter was blinded by love for Dominelli, with whom she shared a $2-million Rancho Santa Fe home, and could not see through the lies told to her by the convicted swindler and his close circle of associates.
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