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Two California sisters were sentenced to over three years in prison after a California judge found they laundered money for drug cartels using sales of teddy bears and mouse dolls shipped from China to Colombia --- Meichun Cheng Huang and Ling Yu pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to structure currency transactions, after prosecutors said they had laundered over $8 million for cartels in Mexico and Colombia through their company, Angel Toy Corp --- Huang, Yu were ordered to forfeit $1 million to the U.S. government --- Yu and her sister Huang were each sentenced by the judge to three years and one month behind bars --- Under the scheme, the company received cash deposits from drug cartels that were all under $10,000 in order to avoid financial reporting requirements --- The company was part of what is called a black market peso exchange, which trades drug money in the United States for clean Colombian pesos through the international purchase and shipment of goods ### State prosecutors want the former Penn State University football coach Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial to be heard by a jury brought in from another county, stating that the case would be in peril if the jury was composed of local residents --- Senior Deputy Attorney General Joseph McGettigan said that Centre Country, where the university is located, has a special and inextricable intertwined relationship with Penn State, with a proper sense of ownership of, and participation in, the fortunes of Penn State, and to ask members of that community to breakdown that alloy and insulate themselves from the institution is asking too much --- Sandusky's attorney said he would oppose the motion to use an outside jury