San Diego
Nancy Hoover Hunter’s retrial on fraud and conspiracy charges linked to the collapse of the J. David & Co. investment firm, due to begin Tuesday, was postponed for a week after a brief hearing in San Diego federal court.
U.S. District Judge Earl B. Gilliam put off the start of Hunter’s trial until May 8 to give defense attorney Richard Marmaro, out of state on another case, time to finish the other matter.
Hunter, a former Del Mar mayor, was convicted in December--after an eight-month trial--of four counts of tax evasion connected to the giant J. David fraud, which cost some 1,500 investors about $80 million. In March, Gilliam sentenced her to 10 years in federal prison.
She faces a retrial on 192 other counts, primarily fraud and conspiracy stemming from her role at the failed La Jolla firm.
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