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Government prosecutors in USA v. Myers – involving an American couple accused of spying for the Cuban government -- requested without opposition to freeze a retirement account owned by the defendants, 72-year-old Walter Kendall Myers and 71-year-old Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers.

The request on Wednesday comes after defense attorneys tried to gain the Myerses' release from detention at Washington's Correctional Treatment Facility, a medium security 1,200-person lockup next to the District of Columbia jail that houses women, jail overflows, a medical infirmary and other inmates in special programs.