Director of Die Hard jailed for lying to FBI
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The director of such blockbuster movies as Die Hard and The Thomas Crown Affair yesterday became the latest casualty of a scandal surrounding a disgraced Los Angeles private detective when he was sentenced to four months in prison for lying to the FBI.
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Ken Silverstein says he lied, deceived and fabricated to get the story.
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A Rhode Island television reporter was sentenced on Thursday to six months of home confinement for refusing to reveal who gave him an FBI videotape that was evidence
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The former White House aide, now facing 30 months in prison, was a victim of the quirks of federal sentencing guidelines
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I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for lying to federal investigators about his role in the leak of a CIA officer's identity by a judge who declared the evidence against him "overwhelming" and concluded that Lib...
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A former executive of a company that shipped military cargo to Iraq has pleaded guilty to lying about a fraud scheme that bilked the government out of more than a million dollars.
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The former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison for orchestrating a scheme to tamper with financial records of stock options the company offered.
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The actor was convicted on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns or to pay taxes in the mixed verdict. He faces up to three years in prison.
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A multi-millionaire crime lord nicknamed &quot;the British Godfather&quot; was jailed for seven years Friday after he admitted masterminding a one-million-pound money laundering scam.
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The former number two buyer for the US Air Force is sentenced to nine months in jail for corruption.
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Movie director John McTiernan was sentenced to four months jail and given a 100,000-dollar fine on Monday for lying to investigators probing a Hollywood wire-tapping scandal.
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A federal judge slammed former Wall Street banking star Frank P. Quattrone Wednesday with an 18-month prison sentence for obstructing a federal securities investigation, ruling that the investment banker lied on the stand during his trial.
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The first company chief executive to be convicted for tampering with stock-option awards was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison, one of a handful of corporate officials to face punishment for the once-widespread practice.
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Arts & entertainment: Die Hard star engages in frank discussion with fans on film site after confirming his identity through videolink.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Die Hard" director John McTiernan is set to take the helm on the Las Vegas action thriller "High Stakes" for Persistent Pictures and Velvet Octopus.
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The former chief financial officer of  defunct hedge fund Bayou Group was sentenced to 20 years in  prison on Tuesday for his role in a scheme that defrauded  investors of $450 million and led to the fund's collapse.
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Former Enron Corp. chief executives Ken   Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were found guilty on Thursday of lying   about their company's troubled finances in one of the biggest   U.S. business scandals and could face years in prison.