12 years for contractor in bribery case
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A defense contractor was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Tuesday for bribing former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with cash, trips, the services of prostitutes and other gifts in exchange for nearly $90 million in Pentagon work.
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The federal government has long imposed unique ethical responsibilities on its contractors. Following the defense procurement scandals of the 1980s such as Operation Ill Wind, Congress considerably increased
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12 year fight ends in victory for 'white hat' password cracker A former Intel contractor has succeeded in quashing charges that he hacked into the chip giant's systems after a legal fight that lasted over a decade.â¦
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A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.
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Two prosecutors were convicted of corruption and sentenced Monday to four-year prison terms.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.  - The former No. 2 weapons buyer  for the U.S. Air Force was sentenced on Friday to nine months  in prison for negotiating a $250,000 job with Boeing Co. while  still overseeing billions of dollars of its business with the  military.
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A once-powerful state senator at the center of a corruption scandal was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for taking payoffs from the health care industry.
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Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.), indicated yesterday that he plans to fight a Justice Department subpoena for 11 years of records that is part of the Jack Abramoff bribery investigation.
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An Indian cabinet minister has been convicted of abducting and murdering his former aide 12 years ago.
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A former state legislator was convicted Tuesday of trading his legislative influence for bribes from a company that was seeking to profit from a proposed natural gas pipeline.
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The estate of Kenneth Lay, who died after being convicted of heading a fraud that destroyed Enron Corp. , agreed to pay $12 million to settle claims on behalf of participants in company pension plans, the Labor Department said.
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A former crematory operator who admitted dumping 334 bodies and passing off cement dust as their ashes pleaded guilty Friday to Tennessee charges and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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The Bosnian war crimes chamber  sentenced a Bosnian Serb former paramilitary on Friday to 12  years in prison for the persecution, detention and torture of  Muslims in eastern Bosnia early in the 1992-95 war.
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WASHINGTON - An American-owned company operating from Kuwait paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to American contracting officers in efforts to win more than $11 million in contracts, the government contends in court documents.
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A former U.N. procurement official on  trail for helping secure contracts for a friend in exchange for  kickbacks is the victim of a &quot;witch hunt&quot; to clean up bad  public relations the world body has suffered in past years, his  defense lawyer argued on Tuesday.
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A former U.N. procurement official was  convicted in a fraud and corruption scandal on Thursday for  helping a friend secure at least $50 million in U.N. contracts.
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A former editor-in-chief of China's  best-selling newspaper has been sentenced to 12 years in jail  on corruption charges, state media said on Saturday.