Iran-embargo defendant gets 2 1/2 years in prison
- A Princeton-educated scientist convicted of violating a trade embargo after his family in Iran sent him $3.4 million was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Monday by a judge who noted that the defendant did not support terrorism or funnel money to Iran's government. Mahmoud Reza Banki winced when his sentence was announced, and numerous spectators among his more than 50 supporters cried openly or wiped tears./ Banki, 35, had faced up to 25 years in prison after he was convicted in June, but even federal prosecutors conceded that the ...
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