MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Noah Rosenberg, New York Times, November 2/3, 2011
Viktor Bout, a former Soviet Air Force officer who became known as the “Merchant of Death” for running what American officials have described as an international arms-trafficking network, was found guilty on Wednesday of conspiring to sell antiaircraft missiles and other weapons to men he believed were Colombian terrorists intent on killing Americans. The verdict, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, was a rather prosaic end to nearly two decades spent in the margins of international terrorism and espionage....
....his extradition to the United States, which Russian officials strenuously opposed, took more than two and a half years. But the trial, presided over by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, took only three weeks, nearly all of it spent by the prosecutors’ making their case. Mr. Bout’s lawyer did not present any witnesses; the jury took less than two days to find Mr. Bout guilty of all four charges.....
Comments
'Bout time.
by Donal on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 8:04am
Yeah, come to think of it, he really was a master at flouting his untouchability.
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 2:23pm