North County Times: Kontogiannis lawyer says Cunningham briber is too sick for prison.
... Kontogiannis pleaded guilty in February to one count of money laundering for using his family's mortgage company to channel more than $1 million in bribes to pay off Cunningham's lavish Rancho Santa Fe estate in 2003.
The businessman, in his pledge to cooperate with the government, has also admitted to as much as $100 million in mortgage fraud unrelated to the Cunningham case, according to the newly filed court documents.
But Kontogiannis -- who has been charged with bribery three times in the last 14 years -- has a grave heart condition, his attorneys argued in the documents. They asked the court to postpone the sentencing so their client can have bypass surgery. ...
Kontogiannis' defense attorneys, in a separate court filing, argued to the judge that the fraud admissions cannot be used against Kontogiannis in his sentencing, because Kontogiannis told federal agents about the $100 million in fraud as part of his deal to cooperate.
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