Apr.29, 2010, 2:35 PM PDT

Sentencing was postponed Thursday for a husband and wife from West Hollywood who were convicted of bribery in connection with an international film festival they produced in Bangkok.

Gerald Green, 78, and Patricia Green, 55, were convicted in September of multiple counts of conspiracy, violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering. Patricia Green was also found guilty of two counts of filing false tax returns.

After a 2 1/2-week trial, a federal jury found the couple had earned more than $13 million by bribing a Thai government official.

Federal prosecutors are recommending that U.S. District Judge George H. Wu sentence the couple to 10 years apiece behind bars, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce H. Searby.

The defense is requesting probation and home detention.

Wu delayed sentencing until June 3, he said, to give attorneys on both sides time to provide details of Gerald Green's emphysema and what effect federal prison might have on his prognosis.

Wu said he had not yet seen "much in the way of medical evidence'' to back up defense arguments that prison would be devastating to his condition.

Patricia Green's attorney, Marilyn E. Bednarski, said the couple had already been adequately punished without going to prison.

"These people have been destroyed,'' she said, adding that the Greens now face "a lifetime of consequences'' as a result of their convictions.

But Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan E. Lopez countered that the couple find themselves in a situation "they put themselves in'' and that they had shown "no remorse'' or "acceptance of responsibility.''

The Greens were arrested in December 2007 and charged with paying kickbacks to the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand in exchange for receiving contracts to manage and operate Thailand's annual Bangkok International Film Festival, and to provide an elite tourism "privilege card'' marketed to wealthy foreigners.

The Greens paid about $1.8 million in bribes to the former governor and received contracts that generated more than $13.5 million in revenue to their businesses, according to the U.S. government.

Searby said that a stipulated forfeiture agreement for $1.8 million had been reached between the Greens and the U.S. government.

Gerald Green was an executive producer of the 2007 Werner Herzog film "Rescue Dawn,'' which starred Christian Bale.