AP Photo by Frank Augstein [© 2005 by AP] [Back to Front Page News] Defendants Rudolf Richter (74), background right, Lothar
Ackermann (64), front left, and Wilfried Ackermann (73), at right,
with lawyers Heinz Walter Lindemann, center front, and Frank Nobis,
background left, sit at a courtroom in the western German city of
Hagen on Friday, June 10, 2005. The three aging men who have been
dubbed the "Grandpa Gang" were convicted on Friday, June 10, 2005, of
robbing 14 German banks and getting away with more than 1 million
(US$1.3 million) over the course of 16 years. The state court in
Hagen on Friday sentenced them to between nine and 12 years in
prison.
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