Ex-Calif. City Mayor Sentenced for Bribes
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A former suburban mayor was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison for a scheme in which he and other government officials pocketed tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to steer city business to contractors.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland pleaded guilty in US District Court Thursday to federal charges stemming from a corruption investigation of his administration.
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A former DUP mayor of Coleraine admits six charges of electoral fraud at the last general and local elections.
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Brocade Communications Systems  Inc's  former CEO was sentenced on Wednesday to 21  months in prison for backdating stock-option grants in a  scandal that has ensnared scores of U.S. companies and led to  billions of dollars of restatements.
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Brocade Communications Systems Inc's  former CEO was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison for backdating stock-option grants in a scandal that has ensnared scores of U.S. companies and led to billions of dollars of restatements.
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A court Thursday convicted a former fisheries official on charges of taking a $3.7 million bribe to allocate fishing quotas to a businessman, news reports said.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 6 -- Former governor George H. Ryan, who won global attention for emptying Illinois's death row, was sentenced to 6 1/2  years in prison Wednesday for a decade of tawdry corruption and official lies that he minimized to the end.
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent convicted of taking a $20,000 bribe was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison.
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Federal police formally charged a former Sao Paulo mayor with money laundering, embezzlement and other crimes they allege he committed while in office, officials said Wednesday.
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The officials were charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for promising municipal business to undercover officers posing as insurance brokers.
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Brocade Communications Systems  Inc's  former chief was sentenced on Wednesday to 21  months in prison for backdating stock-option grants in a  scandal that has ensnared scores of U.S. companies and led to  billions of dollars of restatements.
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The city's former mayor, already serving a 37-year federal prison sentence for having sex with children, pleaded no contest Tuesday to state child-sex charges and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A retired police   commissioner was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for   murder, torture and kidnappings during Argentina's "dirty war,"   in one of the first sentences since amnesty laws were scrapped   last year.
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The former mayor of a tiny coal town who prosecutors say masterminded a scheme to buy votes with beer, cigarettes and even pork rinds, pleaded guilty Thursday to 243 felonies, including vote-rigging and corruption.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Hefei, 24 September: A Chinese local court has sentenced a former county party chief from the eastern province of Anhui to life imprisonment for taking bribes.
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The son of a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation and 600 hours of community service on two drug convictions.
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Democratic fundraiser and political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison after a California judge rejected his bid to dismiss a 16-year-old fraud conviction.