PAGE A3 Congressman Is Convicted Representative James A. Traficant Jr. of Ohio was convicted of racketeering and corruption after serving as his own lawyer.
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A18 Drug Kingpin Is Convicted A federal jury in Miami convicted a Colombian drug kingpin of two counts of conspiracy for selling as much as 30 tons of cocaine a month in the United States in the late 1990s.
Judge Yogesh Khanna, who issued a 240-page judgment on Tuesday, told the court, "I convict all the accused.
"I convict all of the accused," said the judge, Yogesh Khanna, according to reporters inside the small, packed courtroom.
"I convict all of the accused.
After I was convicted, I was moved to a non-segregated part of the prison, where loyalists, republicans, and regular criminals coexisted.
"I was convicted before I've even seen you.
In an interview with Al Jazeera that was broadcast on Sunday, he said, "If I'm convicted, then I am not supposed to be a member of the Parliament".
His last words before being shot were, "I'm convicted unfairly and I die innocent".
