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Christian Tarantino, co-owner of Synergy Fitness Clubs, New York, has been convicted by a federal jury of two 1994 murders.
The verdict, announced May 23, followed eight weeks of trial. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on a third murder charge in the case, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York.
Tarantino, who was arrested Sept. 24, 2008, after an FBI raid at his mansion in Dix Hills, NY, faces a mandatory life imprisonment sentence on each of the murder convictions.
"We hope that [the] convictions bring a measure of closure to the family and friends of the victims," U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement. "As this case clearly demonstrates,...