Ex-president convicted in Philippines
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Ousted President Joseph Estrada wanted the dialogue short, just like in his old action movies. No hours of legal mumbo jumbo with a recitation of the 211-page verdict. Just guilty or not.
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A Philippine anticorruption court convicted Joseph Estrada of illegally acquiring wealth while in office and sentenced him to a maximum of 40 years in prison.
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Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is pardoned by his successor after being convicted of corruption.
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Ethiopia's former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam is found guilty in absentia of genocide after a 12-year trial.
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Manila tightens security ahead of the verdict in the corruption trial of ex-Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
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One of South Korea's richest men is given a suspended jail sentence over his conviction for a revenge beating.
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The former White House aide was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail, plus a fine of $250,000.
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MANILA, Philippines - It looks like prison life wasn't too tough for some of the Philippines' most notorious inmates. Authorities said Monday they had seized late-model flat-screen TVs, DVD players and stereos, assorted firearms and mobile phones from jail cells in the national penitentiary compound in the Manila suburb of Muntinlupa...
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A gangmaster is found guilty of money laundering and people smuggling.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - The only Indonesian official to be punished for violence that killed up to 2,000 East Timorese in 1999 has been released from jail, following a court decision that overturned his conviction, officials said.
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A Kenyan judge has imprisoned a businessman and a former bank executive for two years for fraud, in the first convictions under President Mwai Kibaki&#39;s anti-corruption drive.
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Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced Monday charges had been filed against six men in the deadly February bombing of a ferry.
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The South Korean president issues pardons to 400 businessmen and politicians convicted of financial crimes.
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Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after an anti-graft court found him guilty of plunder and barred him from holding public office again.
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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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Two women were convicted of running a religion-laced scam that duped more than 1,000 investors out of nearly &#36;2 million by promising a cut of the late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos' fortune.
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Manila tightens its security ahead of the verdict in the corruption trial of ex-President Joseph Estrada.