U.S. sentences Colombian drug kingpin to 30 years
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A Colombian man who prosecutors called one of the world's most significant drug kingpins was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in prison for money-laundering and smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States.
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By HARRY R. WEBER ATLANTA - A former Coca-Cola secretary convicted of conspiring to steal trade secrets from the world's largest beverage maker was sentenced Wednesday to 8 years in federal prison.
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A Colombian rebel leader was sentenced to 60 years in prison Monday and labeled a terrorist for helping hold three U.S. contractors hostage as part of a decades-long struggle with the Colombian government.
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A man who admitted smuggling more than 24 tons of cocaine into the United States from 1984 to 2000 was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison.
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A female leader of Colombia's Farc rebel group is sentenced to more than 16 years in jail in the US for drug trafficking.
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A federal judge in Illinois sentenced a   Texas man to 30 months in prison on Wednesday for inflating   bills with bogus "war risk" charges for flying cargo into   Baghdad under a contract with Halliburton Co's KBR.
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Four Colombian soldiers were sentenced to 40 years each for murdering union officials in 2004, a decision the government said reflects its commitment to labor rights as it tries to clinch a U.S. free trade deal.
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A drug kingpin was convicted Thursday of murdering five people in a scheme to silence two former dealers turned informants, a verdict that could make him the first person sentenced to death in Iowa in more than 40 years.
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A Colombian court on Thursday sentenced three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to 17 years in prison and fined them a total of 426,000 US dollars for training Colombian rebels.
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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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John A. Lynch Jr. was sentenced today to 39 months in prison for accepting payoffs from a mining company.
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A man charged with a string of home invasion robberies in 2005, including the holdup of "Lost" star Josh Holloway, has reached a plea agreement that will put him behind bars for 30 years.
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A man called "the amphetamine king" by U.S. authorities has been sentenced to more than 50 years in prison, and his brother received 22 years behind bars, Mexican authorities said Wednesday.
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A top Colombian rebel leader was convicted on Tuesday in a U.S. court on charges of conspiring to produce and import cocaine into the United States.
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Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who won the conviction of I. Lewis Libby Jr. on four felony counts, asked a federal judge to sentence him to 30 to 37 months in jail.
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A man alleged to head commando units for the Basque separatist group ETA was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison by a French court Wednesday.
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The leader of Mexico's most infamous drug cartel pleaded guilty in a federal court on Monday to charges of running a criminal enterprise and money laundering in a plea bargain with U.S. authorities that will spare him the death penalty.