SAN DIEGO -- The attorney for Councilman Michael Zucchet is expected to give his closing argument Monday in the council corruption trial of Zucchet, councilman Ralph Inzunza and two others.

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The argument from attorney Jerry Coughlan follows lengthy closing arguments from prosecutor John Rice and Inzunza's attorney, Michael Pancer.

Jury deliberations are expected to begin later this week.

Pancer said in his closing argument that the government had failed to prove there was an "explicit and unambiguous agreement" between Inzunza, Zucchet, the late Charles Lewis and strip club owner Michael Galardi to trade money for votes to repeal San Diego's "no-touch" nude dancing ordinance.

Inzunza and Zucchet are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and extortion. They face three to four years in prison if convicted.

Galardi's Las Vegas lobbyist, Lance Malone, faces the same charges as the councilmen, as well as interstate travel in aid of racketeering.

Lewis, indicted on the same charges as the other councilmen in August 2003, died last year of complications from liver disease.

David Cowan, a former aide to Lewis, was charged with making a false statement to the FBI.

Pancer told the jury that Inzunza came into the case in 2001 when John D'Intino, who ran Cheetah's San Diego for Galardi, mentioned that the councilman voted against banning beer at the beach.

Malone told Inzunza falsely that the police didn't like "no-touch" and that it was a waste of police resources, Pancer told the jury.

Pancer said FBI informant Tony Montagna pushed Malone into thinking the councilmen wanted more campaign contributions from Galardi, when in fact they never asked.

The government was so desperate to find a money trail from Galardi to the councilmen that they made a "devil's deal" with him so he could testify at trial and try for a reduced prison sentence, not to exceed five years, Pancer said.

The attorney said Galardi lied about giving complimentary rooms to Lewis and his wife in Las Vegas, lied about giving cash to Lewis, lied about a Las Vegas prosecutor coming into one of his strip clubs and lied about giving the councilmen a total of $16,000 on two different occasions.

Rice argued the three councilmen denied the citizens of San Diego the right to honest services by taking money in exchange for work to repeal "no-touch" and covering it up.

Rice said Malone, Inzunza and Zucchet had stories prepared in case anyone questioned them as to why they were working to change the law enacted in October 2000.

Rice played for the jury a secretly recorded conversation between Malone and Russ Bristol, a vice officer playing the role of a corrupt cop willing to testify before a City Council committee that "no-touch" was a waste of police resources.