Dems Fundraiser Sentenced to Prison
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Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after a judge rejected his bid to throw out a 16-year-old fraud conviction
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A former office manager for Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.) and two other House Democrats pleaded guilty yesterday to fraud for taking $200,000 in public money by submitting phony expense reports, according to Justice Department and House documents.
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The former head of a Republican consulting group was sentenced Tuesday to five months in jail for jamming Democratic telephone lines in several New Hampshire cities during the 2002 election.
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A far-right activist was convicted of incitement and sentenced to the maximum five years in prison Thursday for anti-Semitic activities, including contributing to a Web site dedicated to Holocaust denial.
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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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Three Americans have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty by an Afghan court on charges including torture, running a private prison and illegal detention.
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A former state senator who was released after serving about three months of a one-year sentence in a bribery scheme was ordered back to jail Friday by a city commission.
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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 strip club owner who named names and gave graphic accounts of bribing Nevada and California politicians in a corruption probe known as "Operation G-Sting" was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison.
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The saga of the scandal-plagued Democratic fundraiser with ties to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took another strange twist after he mailed a suicide note last week to a legal organization.
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A former aide to Rep. Lloyd Doggett was sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty Tuesday to stealing $168,000 from the congressman's campaign.
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An indicted businessman who poured thousands of dollars into the campaigns of Barack Obama and other politicians was jailed Monday after prosecutors disclosed he received $3.5 million from an Iraqi billionaire while claiming to be broke.
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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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Democrats today tried to draw attention to Republican candidate for governor Mitch Daniels&#39; 1970 drug arrest, holding a news conference to demand more details about the case.
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A Louisville businessman was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison for bribing Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) with hundreds of thousands of dollars and company stock to promote his Kentucky firm's high-tech business ventures in Africa.
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A Democratic-leaning voter turnout group agreed to pay a $775,000 penalty for violating federal rules during the 2004 election.
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Chelsea D. Gerlach was sentenced to prison time for her role in âthe family,â a group of people who have been convicted of arson and other destructive actions.