Ex-Ill. gov gets 6 1/2 years in prison
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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 Wednesday to 6 1/2 years behind bars in the corruption scandal that ruined his political career.
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Disgraced former Irish Foreign Minister Ray Burke has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to filing false tax returns.
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A former top aide to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was sentenced on Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for lying and obstructing an investigation related to the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war.
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Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about using steroids
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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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A former Argentine military officer has been sentenced to six months in a U.S. prison for visa fraud and is likely to be returned home to face war-crimes charges, immigration officials said on Monday.
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A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced a former F.B.I. agent to six years in prison for racketeering and securities fraud related to the inside-trading prosecution of a former stock picker, Anthony Elgindy.
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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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Andrew Fastow, whose financial wizardry   was exposed as fakery and theft in the Enron Corp. collapse,   was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday -- four years less   than provided in his 2004 plea agreement.
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Former tax inspector who admitted a Â£1m plot against the supermarket giant is jailed for six years
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A court has sentenced an independent rights activist and journalist to six years in jail for extortion amid a sweeping government crackdown on dissidents in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet state.
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A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc  analyst was sentenced to nearly five years in prison on Thursday for leading an insider-trading ring that netted more than $6 million in illegal profits.
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A teenager was sentenced Friday to 1 1/2 years in prison for unleashing an Internet worm that crippled 48,000 computers in 2003.
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Costa Rica&#39;s former president Miguel Angel Rodriguez was jailed on Friday for six months pendinginvestigation of corruption charges against him.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Former NHL tough guy Mike Danton was sentenced Monday to 7 1/2 years in prison for trying to have his agent killed.
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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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PORTLAND, Ore. -- A Portland man was sentenced to six months in federal prison for breaking into a NASA computer systems in 2001 and causing more than $200,000 in damage.