San Francisco Chronicle: Ukrainian ex-prime minister's sentence reduced
Pavel Lazarenko, a former Ukrainian prime minister, was convicted in 2004 of money laundering.

San Francisco Chronicle: Ukrainian ex-prime minister's sentence reduced

Nov 21, 2009 at 20:45 | Wire reports
A former Ukrainian prime minister who fled his country after losing a power struggle won an 11-month reduction Wednesday in his nine-year prison term for laundering more than $20 million through U.S. banks, but failed to persuade a San Francisco federal judge to throw his sentence out. Read the story here.