Former MedImmune VP Gets Prison Term
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Eric I. Tsao, a former scientist at the Gaithersburg biotech firm, was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison on charges stemming from a series of improper stock trades.  -The Washington Post
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Disgraced former US Olympic champion sentenced to prison for lying to investigators about steroid use
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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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A man convicted of deliberately exposing 17 women to HIV, infecting his wife and four others, has been sentenced to more than 178 years in prison.
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A US doctor who pledged to treat al-Qaeda fighters is convicted of conspiracy to support the terror network.
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China sentences the former head of its Food and Drug Administration to death for corruption, state media says.
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A Chinese health official once hailed  as a hero for his work in fighting the spread of SARS has been  jailed for life for taking "huge" bribes from vaccine  distributors, state media said on Saturday.
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A former executive at the Gaithersburg biotechnology firm MedImmune Inc. is scheduled to plead guilty today to criminal charges related to his allegedly improper stock trades, according to court papers.
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Former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 months in prison for lying and obstructing investigators during a probe tied to the Iraq war.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 6 -- A technician at a cancer center was sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a gravely ill patient, who spent months trying to clear his name while the disease ravaged his body.
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The former head of a Republican consulting group was sentenced Tuesday to five months in jail for jamming Democratic telephone lines in several New Hampshire cities during the 2002 election.
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Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan,   promoted as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate for his vigorous   opposition to capital punishment, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years   in prison on Wednesday for corrupt dealings while in office.
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A Unix systems administrator is sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for planting a logic bomb that could have taken down a corporate network holding customer health care information.
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Lewis Libby, a top former White House aide, is given 30 months in jail for perjury and obstruction of justice.
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Former Gov. George Ryan, who was acclaimed by capital punishment foes for suspending executions in Illinois and emptying out death row, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison Wednesday in the corruption scandal that ended his political career.
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NEWARK, New Jersey  - A former top police official in the Philippines who admitted receiving classified information stolen from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office was sentenced to more than six years in prison on Tuesday.
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Former head of food and drug watchdog executed for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash.