Leading Class-Action Lawyer Is Sentenced to Two Years in Kickback Scheme
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William S. Lerach was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit $7.75 million for concealing illegal payments to a plaintiff in class-action lawsuits.
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An attorney who admitted leaking the confidential grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds and other athletes to a reporter was sentenced Thursday to two and a half years in prison, by far the harshest penalty to result from the government's sprawling probe of steroids in sports.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Norwalk doctor charged in a vaccine fraud case has been fined $30,000 and has been placed on probation for two years.
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William S. Lerach, one of the nation's best known and wealthiest plaintiff lawyers, is preparing to plead guilty as early as today to a single criminal conspiracy charge that could send him to prison for up to two years, according to sources familiar with the case.
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Former Enron Corp.  executive Paula Rieker, whose testimony helped convict her bosses, tearfully apologized on Friday for insider trading and then was sentenced to two years on probation.
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The former chief operating officer of Enron Corp.'s broadband Internet division, Kevin Hannon, was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for his role in the fraud that led to the giant energy company's collapse, a court official said on Monday.
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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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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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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14  â Two of three former Enron traders accused of driving up energy prices during Californiaâs power crisis in 2000 and 2001 were each sentenced on Wednesday in federal court to two years of court-supervised release.
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A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.
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A law firm boss and some of his former staff are convicted after claiming up to an estimated Â£10m of bogus Legal aid work.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- 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 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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Federal prosecutors contend a businessman known for pledging money to help track down criminals has pocked $3.2 million of income over the past several years while not paying federal taxes since 2000.
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A former executive of CA Inc. was sentenced to 10 months of home confinement for conspiring to buy the silence of two people as part of a $2.2 billion fraud scheme.
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By AVRUM D. LANK  A former executive of Sigma-Aldrich Corp. has been indicted in a kickback scheme alleging he and a Pittsburgh man defrauded the company of millions of dollars.  Robert E.
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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.