San Diego

Nancy Hoover Hunter’s retrial on fraud and conspiracy charges linked to the collapse of the J. David & Co. investment firm, already postponed once, was put off again Tuesday for two more weeks 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 22 to give defense attorney Richard Marmaro, working on another case out of state, time to finish the other matter. The new trial originally had been set to begin May 1.

Hunter, a former Del Mar mayor, was convicted in December of four counts of tax evasion connected to the giant J. David fraud, in which some 1,500 investors lost about $80 million.

In March, Gilliam sentenced her to 10 years in prison.

Hunter faces a retrial on 192 other counts, primarily fraud and conspiracy stemming from her role at the failed La Jolla firm.