CA: the jury has the case of the ex-CCCP reservoir dogs now

From the L.A. Times:

Emigres' murder case goes to jury - Organized crime and money laundering are linked to a kidnapping scheme that left five dead, prosecutors say

He was a glasnost entrepreneur trying to forge a new future out of the ruins of post-Soviet Russia. Now, the Russian immigrant to the San Fernando Valley is trying to convince a federal jury that his resourceful style of communist-busting capitalism did not turn into a kidnap-for-ransom murder scheme that ended with five bodies in a Sierra lake. The jury is expected to begin deliberating today whether Iouri Mikhel and co-defendant Jurijus Kadamovas were responsible for the deaths...