Former Congressman Edward Mezvinsky has lost his bid to resurrect an insanity defense that was abandoned by his former lawyers and to delay his trial on charges of running fraud schemes that spanned more than a decade and bilked his own friends and family out of more than $10 million.
U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell last week rejected several motions by Mezvinsky’s court-appointed lawyer, Stephen LaCheen, designed to buy more time and to reconfigure the defense theories.
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