Md. Gives &#36;1.4M to Wrongly Convicted Man
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A man who served 27 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned was awarded &#36;1.4 million Wednesday, Maryland's largest award for a wrongful conviction.
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Quattrone told reporters after his sentencing that he could hold his head high because he was innocent. Picture:AP. Frank Quattrone, who made $US120 million ($A172 million) in 2000 as Credit
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A German tax official who stole more than $230,000 (114,950 pounds) from the state by inventing taxpayers and claiming money owed to them has been handed jailed for three years and three months, authorities said on Tuesday.
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BLACKSTONE, Massachusetts - A man who retrieved a $1 million lottery ticket from the trash reached a settlement with the family of the man who claimed he accidentally threw it away.  Edward St.
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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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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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States' compensation for wrongful imprisonment ranges from zero to millions of dollars.
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Prosecutors in the Kobe Bryant case spent nearly &#36;400,000 trying to get the NBA star convicted of raping a woman at a Vail-area resort last summer, documents show.
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One of two men who allegedly tried to sell Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez&#039;s stolen wedding video back to the couple for &#36;1 million pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted grand larceny.
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Jurors ordered a private prison operator and its warden to pay $47.5 million to the family of a man beaten to death by fellow inmates four days before finishing his drug sentence.
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The man who claims Gov. James E. McGreevey sexually harassed him was pushing for a cash settlement of up to &#36;50 million before the governor decided to announce that he was gay and had an extramarital affair, sources told The Associated Press.
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CHICAGO -- A former employee was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from public broadcasting station WTTW-TV.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer's campaign has agreed to pay a &#36;31,000 fine to settle a campaign finance case.
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A man who spent months in jail after being accused of sexually assaulting and drowning his 3-year-old daughter before DNA evidence cleared him was awarded, with his wife, $15.5 million Thursday.
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A federal judge fined a Vatican official &#36;15,000 Thursday but spared him prison time for his role in the insurance scam of disgraced financier Martin Frankel.
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A defense contractor has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribing a congressman with cash, meals, trips and other gifts in exchange for nearly $90 million in Pentagon work.
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Scott Levine, a Florida businessman convicted of stealing more than 1 billion data records from Acxiom Corp. deserved the eight-year prison term he got last year, a federal appeals court has ruled.