Acquitted Millionaire Guilty on Gun Charges
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Robert Durst, the millionaire New York real estate heir acquitted last year of murdering a neighbor in Texas, pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to federal gun charges in exchange for a sentence of up to nine months.
The case involved two .38-caliber revolvers Durst took with him when he fled Texas in 2001 after the shooting death of his 71-year-old neighbor.
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