The daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a friend after a drunken argument at a Maryland home. Her Friday sentencing comes after a jury in November found Sophia Negroponte guilty of second-degree murder for the death of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen. It was a retrial after a 2023 conviction on the same charge was overturned. Sophia Negroponte was one of five abandoned or orphaned Honduran children adopted by John Negroponte and his wife after he was appointed as U.S. ambassador to the Central American country in the 1980s.
