MANHATTAN – Erdal Kuyumcu was properly convicted of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Second Circuit ruled . Kuyumcu had pleaded guilty but claimed his plea allocution was insufficient to prove his involvement in a plan to channel cobalt alloy with nuclear and missile applications to Iran.
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