Republican blackmailer is jailed
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A dissident repubican from Belfast is jailed for nine years for extortion and arms offences.
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A Republican U.S. senator whose telephone number was discovered in the phone records of a woman accused of running a Washington prostitution ring has apologized publicly for committing "serious sin" in his past.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- The man who provided prosecutors most of the information that led to Michael Vick's downfall was sentenced to two months in prison Friday for his role in the NFL star's dogfighting ring.
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Man served 4 years on charges that some say were trumped up to retaliate for aggressive reporting.
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A man who made two false bomb  threats so his friend would have time to retrieve her passport  was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 months in prison, officials  said.
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A former state senator who was released after serving about three months of a one-year sentence in a bribery scheme was ordered back to jail Friday by a city commission.
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One of the top 10 spammers in the US has been sentenced to nine years in prison for illegal spam activities under Virginia&#39;s anti-spam law.
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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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CHICAGO, Sept. 6 -- Former governor George H. Ryan, who won global attention for emptying Illinois's death row, was sentenced to 6 1/2  years in prison Wednesday for a decade of tawdry corruption and official lies that he minimized to the end.
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LAFAYETTE - A DeRidder man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison on federal child pornography charges.  Jeffrey Johnson, 37, was convicted in August after a one-day trial.
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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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A computer technician involved in a  bid to extort $1.3 million from Tom Cruise for copies of the  actor's stolen wedding photographs was sentenced on Thursday to  two years probation.
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The former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison for orchestrating a scheme to tamper with financial records of stock options the company offered.
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A CLOSE political ally and business associate of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was jailed for nine years yesterday for colluding with the Mafia.
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The former chief of Brocade Communications was sentenced to 21 months in prison for scheming to tamper with the financial records of the companyâs stock options.
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Two men convicted of membership in the illegal paramilitary Irish Republican Army, one of them a prominent Sinn Fein party member, were given four-year jail sentences.
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Man had been charged with one of the largest such scams in U.S. history.