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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Viktor Bout gets 25 years in prison
2012-04-06
A United States court on Thursday sentenced a Russian arms trafficker to 25 years in prison for conspiring to kill US nationals and for providing weapons to a terrorist organization in Latin America, dpa reported.
And we're never, ever going to know the full story of his fall...
Judge Shira Scheindlin of the Federal District Court in New York City also fined Viktor Bout 15 million dollars. A jury had found him guilty of counts of conspiring to kill US citizens who assisted the government in Colombia more than a decade ago in the fight against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The US has declared FARC a terrorist organization.

Bout, 45, was also accused by Washington of trying to sell FARC 20 million dollars' worth of anti-aircraft missiles, other weapons and ammunition. He was convicted in November 2011.

The former Soviet Air Force officer was arrested in Thailand in March 2008 in a sting operation orchestrated by the US Drug Enforcement Administration and later extradited to the United States to stand trial for trying to kill US citizens.
Posted by:Steve White

#12  That might not be the proper name. Basically, the more-or-less mostly european descended families who run Mexico.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2012-04-06 21:49  

#11  They'll never do that because the Forty Families don't want Holder's freedom taken away, they want ours taken away.

Who are these "Forty Families"?
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2012-04-06 20:50  

#10  Awesome pic of the Mexico flag in the background of el prez's dismissal of SCOTUS authority.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-04-06 17:36  

#9  They'll never do that because the Forty Families don't want Holder's freedom taken away, they want ours taken away.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2012-04-06 16:19  

#8  Sounds like we're making a much bigger deal out of this than Bout is worth.

Hopefully we're setting a precedent for when Mexico requests Holder's extradition in a year or two.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-04-06 15:59  

#7  The former Soviet Air Force officer was arrested in Thailand in March 2008...

This case was left over from the previous administration.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2012-04-06 15:03  

#6  It's called eliminating the competition.

Yeah. That's kinda what I thought.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-04-06 14:31  

#5  Bout goes to jail for selling guns to FARC but Eric Holder sells guns to Mexican drug cartels and he's still the AG.

It's called eliminating the competition.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-04-06 13:55  

#4  Bout goes to jail for selling guns to FARC but Eric Holder sells guns to Mexican drug cartels and he's still the AG. Sounds like we're making a much bigger deal out of this than Bout is worth. I mean, it's not like he's the only arms dealer who ever walked the planet.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-04-06 12:07  

#3  Victor's father wanted so much for him to enter the Soviet Astronaut program. Unfortunately his first love was automatic weapons.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-04-06 09:17  

#2  OK...so State got their prize. Now what? Swap? Pardon? Early release due to medical condition? If Viktor is truely looking at 25 years there's gonna be some skeletons comming out of closets...literally.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2012-04-06 08:00  

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Posted by: gromky   2012-04-06 04:43  

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