Abramoff Supporter Spared Prison
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A GOP environmentalist who arranged lobbyist Jack Abramoff's entree into the Interior Department was sentenced to two months in a halfway house and four years probation
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A court has ruled that a former member of the left-wing extremist Red Army Faction which terrorised Germany in the 1970s will be released from jail.
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A man wrongly convicted of rape, kidnapping and robbery was freed Tuesday after 17 years in prison &#151; exonerated by a new test of DNA evidence and "unusually" helpful prosecutors.
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen gets a three-month suspended jail term for playing down Nazi war crimes.
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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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Malaysia&#39;s Federal Court Wednesday upheld the conviction for corruption of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, blocking him from politics till 2008.
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An opposition leader was convicted Thursday of organizing an unauthorized rally against the disputed election of Belarus&#039; authoritarian president and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in jail, his lawyer said.
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A well known Kenyan businessman has been imprisoned in the first conviction under President Mwai Kibaki&#39;s promised anti-corruption drive.
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One of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicagoâs Sears Tower was acquitted, and a mistrial was declared for the six others after the federal jury deadlocked.
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A federal judge declined Tuesday to throw out a conviction or order a new trial for a former Bush administration official convicted of lying about his relationship with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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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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A man who contended that he was not required to pay income tax, and whose case led to an indictment against actor Wesley Snipes, has been convicted of tax evasion.
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US banker Frank Quattrone wins the right to stay out of jail pending an appeal against an 18-month sentence for obstruction of justice.
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A Georgia man, who served 17 years in  prison for rape and robbery, was freed on Tuesday, one week  after DNA evidence showed he had been wrongly convicted of the  crime.
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A S African court gives a German who admitted involvement in a nuclear smuggling ring a suspended sentence.
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Two leaders of an Albany mosque who were snared in an FBI sting involving a fictional terror strike were sentenced Thursday to 15 years in federal prison. The former imam, Yassin Aref, professed innocence before his sentencing and criticized the government's treatment of Muslims.
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A factory worker who helped to organize a strike during China's 1989 pro-democracy protests has been released after nearly 15 years in prison, a U.S.-based prison rights group said Saturday.