Aide: Pitino never mentioned abortion
July 30, 2010
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)—A longtime aide to Rick Pitino told jurors the Louisvillemen’s basketball coach asked him to take a woman out of town for medicalservices after she said the coach got her pregnant in a one-night tryst at arestaurant.
The aide, Tim Sypher, testified Friday that Pitino did not mention takingKaren Cunagin Sypher to get an abortion. Tim Sypher, 49, said he called clinicsin Indiana and Ohio before taking Karen Sypher to Cincinnati, where sheterminated the pregnancy on Aug. 29, 2003.
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Tim Sypher testified that he paid for the procedure from $3,000 Pitino gavefor medical insurance.
Karen Cunagin Sypher is accused of trying to extort millions from Pitino.She has pleaded not guilty.
Tim and Karen Sypher, now divorced, would marry less than a year later.
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