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American convicted of spying in Russia, gets 16 years

by Associated Press
| June 15, 2020 7:27 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court convicted an American corporate security executive Monday of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in prison after a closed trial that the U.S. denounced as a “mockery of justice,” and it angrily said his treatment in jail was “appalling.”

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