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Nancy Hoover Hunter, the former mayor of Del Mar who was the live-in companion of convicted swindler J. David (Jerry) Dominelli, pleaded innocent Friday along with three other people named in the latest round of indictments stemming from the J. David & Co. investment fraud.
Hunter and four others were charged with securities violations in a 56-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Thursday.
U.S. Magistrate Roger Curtis McKee released Hunter on a bond she had posted in a previous case. She is awaiting trial on a 1986 indictment that charged her with 234 counts of fraud, conspiracy and income tax evasion stemming from her work at J. David & Co., where she was second in command.
Also pleading innocent Friday were Norman Nouskajian, a lawyer who worked for J. David, and two salesmen for the firm, Robert G. Smith and Robert Kritzik.
Smith was released on a bond he had posted in a previous case and Nouskajian was released on his own recognizance. Kritzik was released after posting a $25,000 bond.
A fifth defendant, Edward J. Pulaski Jr., is to be arraigned Monday.
Mark R. Yarry, a top money-raiser for J. David, was charged in a separate indictment and apparently will fight extradition from England, according to Assistant U.S. Atty. Gay Hugo.
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