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Konstantinos Diamantis’ defense lawyer, who had been preparing to defend the former deputy state budget director at a second corruption trial , is asking for permission to withdraw because Diamantis still owes him for his first corruption trial, which ended in conviction in October.

“Mr. Diamantis has thus far not fulfilled his obligation as to services for that trial that has gone to verdict and has been warned that the undersigned will move to withdraw if the responsibility is not fulfilled,” defense lawyer Norm Pattis wrote in a motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court .

Pattis filed the request to be allowed to end his representation of Diamantis in a motion filed Monday with U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill, who has been ass

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