Viktor bout

• (CNN)-- Convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was sentenced Thursday to 25 years behind bars by a federal judge in New York. I am not guilty, Bout said through a translator. I never intended to kill anyone.
(CNN)
• A federal judge in New York Thursday sentenced Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout to 25 years in prison for conspiring to sell weapons to a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist group based in Colombia. U.S. District Judge Shira A.
(Voice of America)
• Viktor Bout, a Russian man known and feared for his leadership role in international weapons trafficking, was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison, sparing him the life sentence that federal prosecutors in Manhattan had sought.
(New York Times)
• Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military officer, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday by a US judge for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to US agents posing as members of Farc, the Colombian guerrilla group.
(Financial Times)
• Bout, a Russian national, faces a minimum of 25 years in prison and could be sentenced to life. He was convicted in November after his 2008 extradition from Thailand, where he was caught in a sting operation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
(KBOI)
• NEW YORK, April 6 (Itar-Tass) —— The wife of convicted Russian businessman Viktor Bout described the 25-year sentence to her husband, which is the mandatory minimum for the charges, as a victory which gives hope he may be extradited to Russia soon.
(ITAR-TASS)
• Viktor Bouts sentence was the mandatory minimum he faced, though federal sentencing guidelines had called for life in prison.
(Newser)
• NEW YORK — A federal prosecutor was only two minutes into an argument urging a harsh prison sentence for Viktor Bout, when the notorious arms dealer dubbed the Merchant of Death made it clear he had heard enough.
(Washington Post)
• NEW YORK, April 5-- Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer known as the Merchant of Death, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday for attempting to sell weapons to Colombian terrorists who were targeting Americans. U.S.
(English Eastday)
• In an unusual move, suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout has asked a federal judge to not sentence him next week, saying that doing so would make her "an unwilling party in his wrongful prosecution.
(Wall Street Journal)