On Friday, indicted Duke Cunningham co-conspirator John Michael attempted to turn the tables on his uncle Thomas Kontogiannis, who appears to be cooperating with the government to convict Michael in order to get his own sentence reduced. Michael threw down the gauntlet in a wide-ranging motion seeking the dismissal of charges against Michael, the exclusion of Kontogiannis’s testimony, and the removal of one of the U.S. attorneys on the case, Philip Halpern, as Kontogiannis’s daughter purchased a home owned by Halperin’s uncle in Nassau County, New York. Reports the San Diego Union-Tribune:
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