Exec. gets 7 years for congressman bribe
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A Kentucky businessman who admitted paying more than $400,000 in bribes to a Louisiana congressman was sentenced Friday to more than seven years in prison.
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A former executive with Computer Associates who pleaded guilty to securities fraud was sentenced to seven months in prison and seven months of home detention.
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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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The former chief executive officer of Enron Broadband Services has been sentenced to 27 months in prison on securities fraud charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
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US energy group El Paso Corp. has agreed to pay 7.7 million dollars in penalties amid an ongoing US probe into alleged kickbacks tied to the now defunct UN oil-for-food program with Iraq, officials said.
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A Department of Homeland Security supervisor pleaded guilty yesterday to pocketing more than $600,000 in bribes in exchange for falsifying immigration documents to help Asian immigrants obtain U.S. citizenship.
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The United States has arrested a California-based movie executive and his wife on suspicion of paying $1.7 million in bribes to a senior Thai official to secure lucrative contracts to run a film festival in Bangkok.
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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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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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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.  Nathan Peterson, 27, of Los Angeles, sold products copyrighted by companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc.
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A federal immigration official pleaded guilty Thursday to receiving more than $600,000 in bribes for falsifying documents for illegal immigrants.
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A campaign consultant said he was hired by several Florida politicians over the past seven years to gather absentee ballots during their elections, a violation of state law.
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A U.S. federal jury convicted the former owner and president of ATE Tel Solutions Inc., a telecommunications and Internet service provider, on seven of nine counts of wire fraud in a scheme to defraud the E-Rate program, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
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The British leader of a group of 67 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea has been sentenced to seven years in jail.
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A man who spent seven years in prison for rape before a DNA test exonerated him will get $3.9 million from the city, authorities said.
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A HAMPTON man who tried to smuggle nearly 1,000 ecstasy tablets in his underwear has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
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Former secretary sentenced to eight years over plot to sell secret formula.