{"id":121448,"date":"2011-08-24T17:45:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=121448"},"modified":"2011-08-24T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:45:49","slug":"new-ny-sentencing-for-armenian-man-in-missiles-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/08\/24\/new-ny-sentencing-for-armenian-man-in-missiles-scam.html","title":{"rendered":"New NY Sentencing for Armenian Man in Missiles Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court in New York has ordered a new sentencing for an Armenian immigrant sent to prison for 22 years for plotting to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons to an FBI informant, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/AP9f8af908d9aa47b894230d7a12db520b.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">AP reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that a judge incorrectly calculated the factors used to determine the seriousness of the crime carried out by Artur Solomonyan.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, the appeals court upheld the conviction and sentencing of Solomonyan and five others. They were sentenced in 2009 on arms trafficking and conspiracy charges. The only weapons actually delivered were a dozen firearms, including a machine gun.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Solomonyan did not immediately return a phone message for comment.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court in New York has ordered a new sentencing for an Armenian immigrant sent to prison for 22 years for plotting to&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31130,31131,17197,28902,12643,594,14321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}