The familyofone of the accused, Spanish-languagejournalistVickyPelaez, has insistedinmediainterviews that Pelaez'sonlyconnection to Russiaisherlove ofTchaikovsky.
Mikhail Vasenkov, 66 years old, who used the false name of "Juan Lazaro, " and his wife VickyPelaez, a columnist for Spanish language newspaper El Diario-La Prensa, lived in suburban Yonkers, N.