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Two brothers were sentenced to prison terms Thursday for abducting a Chinese American silk trader and trying to put him on a flight to China, possibly in collusion with Chinese government authorities.
In Los Angeles federal court, Carl Zhang, 33, and John Zhang, 26, received terms of 10 years and eight years, respectively, for their roles in the 1994 abduction of Zhou Xing Ping.
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