LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -A jury is deliberating the fate of a Kentucky woman accused of demanding millions from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino to keep quiet about a sexual tryst in a restaurant.
Karen Cunagin Sypher has pleaded not guilty to extortion and other charges. Her attorneys rested their case Wednesday without calling any witnesses, but claimed during closing arguments that her now ex-husband was behind the scheme.
Prosecutors say Sypher was “looking for a golden parachute” when she demanded $10 million, college tuition for her children and her house paid off in exchange for her silence about having sex with the coach at an Italian restaurant in July 2003.
If convicted of extortion and lying to the FBI, she faces up to seven years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
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