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Son-In-Law Guilty Of Ordering Attacks On Couple

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By ELAINE SILVESTRINI | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 14, 2008

TAMPA - Alex Shevgert was convicted today of all counts by a jury that found him responsible for orchestrating attacks on his parents-in-law because they cut him off financially.

Shevgert was convicted of two counts of traveling in interstate commerce to injure, kill or harass and one count of conspiracy.

Shevgert passed out at the end of the hearing when the verdict was read, and paramedics were summoned, according to U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich. After paramedics concluded Shevgert's vital signs were normal, they did not take him to a hospital.

Kovachevich said the defendant will be taken to the medical unit of the jail where he is being held.

The judge scheduled Shevgert's sentencing for Feb. 20, the same day as the other three defendants – Larik Cholak, Sergey Zub and Edmon Vardanyan. They entered guilty pleas.

Shevgert was accused of hiring men to attack Grigori and Galina Komissarchuk, who both suffered skull fractures. The couple were attacked three times in separate incidents, two in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, N.Y., and one in their home in Sarasota.

Shevgert testified that he is innocent and that he was set up and blackmailed by Cholak. Cholak testified that Shevgert hired him to be the middleman and driver in two of the attacks. The driver in the third attack, Zub, also testified against Shevgert.

Shevgert's wife, Emelia, testified she doesn't think her husband attacked her parents.

The Shevgerts have two children.

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