SAN FRANCISCO — A decade of tangled litigation has taken yet another unexpected turn with the death of a Bay Area financier who was suing the high profile criminal defense lawyers who had defended him on charges of sex tourism.

Thomas White died of pneumonia in a hospital in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he was in custody, said his lawyer, Diane Deckard of the Deckard Law Firm in San Jose. White, who was in his late 70s, had been bedridden after complications from hip surgery, she noted.

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