Connecticut and Washington lawyers for Arif Durrani, a Pakistani-born former arms dealer, are attempting to have his 1987 conviction overturned so he can rejoin his American wife and children in the U.S.
In a Bridgeport trial before the late U.S. District Court Judge T. F. Gilmore Daly, then-federal prosecutor Holly Fitzsimmons won a 10-year conviction and $2 million in fines against Durrani. He was convicted of attempting to buy $347,000 in vacuum radio tubes made by a Danbury company, to be used in the launchers of HAWK missiles, for shipment to Iran.
