NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An attorney for Peter Hoffman, the Hollywood producer convicted this spring of cheating Louisiana's film tax credit program, has asked a federal judge to delay Hoffman's sentencing scheduled for August, saying his client recently suffered a heart attack.
The New Orleans Advocate’s Jim Mustian reports the attorney, Lance Unglesby, told U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in a court filing Tuesday that Hoffman underwent triple bypass surgery on May 27, about a month after he was found guilty of conspiracy and several counts of mail and wire fraud.
A federal jury in New Orleans also convicted Hoffman's wife, Susan, and New Orleans attorney in a scheme to inflate the costs of a multimillion-dollar renovation project in which a dilapidated mansion would become a post-production studio.
