The lawyer for former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor suggested that a brain tumor may have caused her to lose massive sums gambling on video poker games. Over a nine-year period O'Connor wagered an estimated $1 billion, including millions from a charity set up by her late husband, who founded the Jack in the Box fast-food chain. That was the portrait that emerged in court Thursday as the frail former mayor tearfully acknowledged that she skimmed more than $2 million from the charity founded by her late husband, Robert O. Peterson.
