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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A former mayor of Waterbury was sentenced Monday to five years of probation for his role in a trash-hauling corruption case.
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The former leader of the Spokane chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang was sentenced Monday to 7 1/2 years in prison for racketeering.
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A Florida man who made millions of dollars selling illegal copies of computer programs was sentenced Friday to six years in prison in one of the nation's largest software piracy cases.
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A former chief financial officer of  information security company SafeNet Inc was sentenced on  Monday to six months in prison for manipulating employee stock  option grants.
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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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A former official of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority was sentenced yesterday to nine years in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million for his role in one of the largest fraud schemes to emerge from the reconstruction of Iraq, the Justice Department said yesterday.
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A former Montana gubernatorial candidate and investment adviser was sentenced Friday to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme authorities say bilked investors out of $6.8 million.
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WHITE PLAINS, New York  - Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday for lying to federal prosecutors about her steroid use.
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PHOENIX - The former commander of an elite wildland firefighting team who admitted setting two forest fires was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison.
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Former Enron chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling reported to a medium-security federal prison in Minnesota today to start serving a 24-year and six-month sentence for his role in one of history's biggest corporate scandals.
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WHITE PLAINS, New York  - Disgraced U.S. sprinter Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday for lying to federal prosecutors about her steroid use, a stunning downfall for the five-time Olympic medalist.
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Andrew Fastow, who helped engineer the   financial trickery that sank Enron Corp. and then helped   prosecutors convict others involved in the scandal, received a   six-year sentence Tuesday, four years less than the deal he had   made.
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A former CIA contract employee was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 8 1/2 years in prison for beating an Afghan detainee who later died.
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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 federal judge today sentenced George Ryan to 6 1/2 years in prison for racketeering and fraud.
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An attorney who admitted leaking the confidential grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds and other athletes to a reporter was sentenced Thursday to two and a half years in prison, by far the harshest penalty to result from the government's sprawling probe of steroids in sports.