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  • Defense: Witnesses In Sypher Trial May Have Lied

    August 17, 2010 9:20 PM

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) The defense attorney for the woman convicted of trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino says prosecution witnesses may have lied during his client's trial. Attorney James Earhart made the allegation in a motion filed after hours in U.S. District Court in Louisville... more »
  • Jury Returns To Debate Pitino Extortion Case

    August 5, 2010 7:22 AM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - The fate of a Kentucky woman accused of demanding millions from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino to keep quiet about their sexual tryst will be back in the hands of a jury Thursday after the panel didn't reach a verdict on the first day of deliberations. Jurors... more »
  • Jury In Pitino Extortion Trial Deliberates, Finishes For Day Play Video

    August 4, 2010 5:10 PM

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A jury deliberated for nearly two hours Wednesday but went home without reaching a decision in the case of a Kentucky woman accused of demanding millions from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino to keep quiet about their sexual tryst. Karen Cunagin Sypher, 50, has pleaded not... more »
  • Defense Rests Without Calling Witnesses In Pitino Extortion Trial Play Video

    August 4, 2010 10:41 AM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - A woman charged with demanding millions from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino to keep quiet about their sexual tryst did not testify in her own defense, and her attorneys rested their case Wednesday without calling any witnesses. Karen Cunagin Sypher's attorney did not give a reason for... more »
  • Prosecution Rests In Pitino Extortion Trial Play Video

    August 3, 2010 4:39 PM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - Prosecutors have rested their case against a woman charged with trying to extort millions from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino to stay silent about a single sexual fling in a restaurant. Tuesday's close came after seven days of testimony and 21 witnesses, the star being Pitino himself,... more »
  • Attorney: Allegations Against Pitino Were Serious

    August 2, 2010 11:49 AM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - A former lawyer for Karen Cunagin Sypher has testified that allegations she planned to make in a lawsuit against Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino were serious, but he didn't know if the case could be won. Attorney Dana R. Kolter said Monday that he thought Sypher's accusation... more »
  • Aide Says Pitino Never Mentioned Seeking Abortion

    July 30, 2010 12:36 PM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - A longtime aide to Rick Pitino told jurors Friday that the Louisville men's basketball coach asked him to take a woman out of town for medical services after she said the coach got her pregnant during a one-night tryst at a restaurant. The aide, Tim Sypher, testified... more »
  • Aide: Pitino Gave Him $3,000 For Pregnant Woman Play Video

    July 30, 2010 5:26 AM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - Rick Pitino asked a longtime aide to give $3,000 to a woman now accused of trying to extort millions from the Louisville men's basketball coach after she claimed Pitino got her pregnant in a one-night fling at a restaurant, the aide testified. Tim Sypher told jurors on... more »
  • Pitino Arrives At Courthouse For Extortion Trial Play Video

    July 28, 2010 11:21 AM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has arrived at federal court for the extortion trial of a woman with whom he had a sexual fling. Pitino walked through the front door of U.S. District Court in Louisville about 11 a.m. Wednesday, the third day of the trial of... more »
  • Rick Pitino Expected To Testify In Extortion Trial Wednesday

    July 28, 2010 5:05 AM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - Jurors in the case of Karen Cunagin Sypher have heard the night she met University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino at an Italian restaurant in Louisville. Now, they are expected to hear from Pitino himself on Wednesday. Pitino's attorney, Steve Pence, said the coach will likely... more »
  • Attorney Wants Evidence Out Of Pitino Extortion Trial

    July 21, 2010 9:23 AM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - The attorney for a woman charged with trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino wants thousands of pages of evidence excluded from the trial. James Earhart, who represents Karen Cunagin Sypher, said in a motion filed late Tuesday night that prosecutors have turned over... more »
  • Sypher Wants Pitino Extortion Trial Moved

    April 11, 2010 1:01 PM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - The woman accused of attempting to extort money from University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino is asking a judge to move her trial out of Louisville. The attorney for Karen Cunigan Sypher filed a motion in U.S. District Court on Friday that asks that the... more »
  • Trial Date Set For Woman Accused Of Trying To Extort Pitino

    March 18, 2010 5:23 AM

    Court officials have set a trial date for Karen Sypher, the Louisville woman accused in an extortion plot against University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. A Louisville TV station reports that the trial is scheduled to begin June 1. Sypher says that she is not guilty of any of... more »