Judge revokes bail for Cunningham figure

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Source: San Diego Union Tribune

By Greg Moran
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
December 4, 2007

A federal judge revoked bail and issued an arrest warrant yesterday for Long Island financier Thomas Kontogiannis, a key figure in the Randy “Duke” Cunningham scandal.

Kontogiannis has been free on bond since pleading guilty in February. He was supposed to be sentenced yesterday, but the hearing was postponed because he underwent open-heart surgery last week, his lawyers said.

But his medical problems did not insulate him from U.S. District Judge Larry Burns, who said Kontogiannis has continued to break the law since pleading guilty.

Federal prosecutors said in court papers last week that Kontogiannis has “continued to orchestrate the writing and sale of fraudulent mortgages – several million dollars worth since his guilty plea.”

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Wow, Kontogiannis keeps in effect giving a finger to our justice system. Had a good deal of his guilty plea deal made "secret" from the rest of us, then "works" with the government while "vacationing" in Greece without a passport while he was waiting for sentencing, unbeknownst to the judge.

Now he looks like he's conveniently having heart surgery timed with his sentencing, and is continuing to break laws as well as noted here.

Anyone suspect we're seeing a "Ken Lay" type of situation happening? Seems rather suspicious.

Good that the judge is putting his foot down. As much as Kontogiannis is "playing" with the system, you have to wonder what he really knows is going on in the criminal enterprise that this administration has become.

[Ian David]

1. Kontogiannis Kontogiannis is going to jail jail jail! n/t

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2. He pleaded guilty NINE MONTHS ago?!

Tell me that Joe Schlub would still be walking around free nine months after pleading guilty to bribery, money laundering, and obstructing justice. This stinks, stinks, stinks.

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4. He had to have time to take a vacation in Europe with his "government agency" buddies...

... since he "made that deal"! A nice deal isn't it, when he didn't even have to tell the judge he was doing so!

Yes, it does stink! And with his being guilty of money laundering and ties to the whole Hookergate/Cunningham mess that involves folks like Dusty Foggo of the CIA, I still wonder if he wasn't laundering counterfeit money made by the CIA that is rumored to be happening and being blamed on North Korea that lead to our new money when the "super dollars" were too good to detect by most people.

With so much we don't know of what went on in this case, something like that or something else that both parties in congress don't want uncovered I think is at work here. Otherwise, I'd think Waxman would go after this for sure.

[Demeter]

3. I Know the Wheels of Justice Grind Slowly, But This Is Ridiculous!