SKorean tycoon gets 18-month prison term
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The chairman of the Hanwha Group Chairman, one of South Korea's richest people, was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday for a sensational beating attack earlier this year against bar workers who had scuffled with his son.
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Former investment banker Frank Quattrone was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 months in prison, two months more than the harshest recommended penalty, for obstructing probes
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Kevin P. Hannon was sentenced to time in federal prison for his role in the fraud that led to the companyâs collapse.
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The chairman of Hyundai Motor Corporation, the world's sixth largest auto maker, has been sentenced to three years in jail after being convicted of embezzlement charges, but will remain at the helm of the company while he awaits an appeal.
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One of South Korea's richest businessmen was handed a suspended 1-Â½ year sentence on Tuesday for beating up karaoke bar workers, the latest tycoon in the country to avoid jail despite a criminal conviction.
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A businessman has been sentenced to life in prison and his wife to 14 years behind bars for stealing &#36;50 million in China's second-biggest bank fraud since the start of communist rule in 1949, a news report said.
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A Spaniard was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for stealing the equivalent of a dollar from a pay phone 13 years ago.
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The son of Miami Police Chief John Timoney was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison for trying to buy 400 pounds of marijuana from an undercover agent.
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The former chief financial officer of the hedge fund Bayou Group was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a scheme that defrauded investors of $450 million and led to the fundâs collapse.
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A former corporate executive was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay $165 million restitution in a massive Florida fraud against Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo, prosecutors said.
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Frank P. Quattrone, the former chief technology banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week, accused the judge in his case yesterday of callousness
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Former football player Tommy Kane, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his former wife, was sentence Friday to 18 years in jail.
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Martin Frankel,  who defrauded insurance companies out of more than $200m is sentenced to more than 16 years in jail.
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A U.S. judge sentenced South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park to five years in prison on Thursday for money-laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Iraq in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal.
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The big news on the investment crime front last week was the 18-month prison sentence dealt out to convicted felon Frank Quattrone, formerly a star investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston, for obstruction of justice.
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A Cambodian court sentenced ex-Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh to 18 months in jail in absentia on Tuesday for selling his former party's headquarters.
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Judges sentenced an Islamic militant to 18 years in prison Thursday for his involvement in the 2005 Bali bombings that killed 20 people &#151; the second verdict in the terrorist attack in as many days.