“The Fogel family is very happy for the Griner family and hopes that the U.S. government will apply the same kind of effort to get Marc out,” says Thomas Firestone, the family’s attorney
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Griner was later sentenced to nine years, but this week Griner was released after 10 months in holding in aWho Is Viktor Bout, the Russian Arms Dealer Swapped for Brittney Griner’s Release“The Fogel family is very happy for the Griner family and hopes that the U.S. government will apply the same kind of effort to get Marc out,” Thomas Firestone, the family’s attorney, tells TIME. “This is just an extremely unfair sentence and we hope that the U.S.
“It seems pretty clear that they [Russia] have embarked on a policy of using Americans who are arrested in Russia as bargaining chips for other political ends, and we think that Mark got caught up in that,” Firestone says.
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