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  • Judge rejects Bout push to overturn guilty verdict

    The New York federal judge who presided over Viktor Bout’s November trial has rejected the arms dealer’s push to have his conviction on conspiracy charges overturned. Judge Shira Scheindlin spurned defense arguments that Bout jury’s guilty verdicts were tainted because the jury forewoman had viewed “Lord of War,” a Nicholas Cage action film partly based on Bout’s…