U.S. prosecutors credit gold trader in Iran sanctions case

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors are seeking leniency at next-week’s sentencing of a Turkish-Iranian businessman who admitted to helping Iranians and their government evade sanctions and who provided key testimony at a 2017 corruption trial that strained relations between the U.S. and Turkey.

The prosecutors said Monday in a sentencing memorandum to a New York federal judge that international gold …