Former UN official convicted
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A former United Nations official was convicted Thursday of helping a friend secure $100 million in U.N. contracts in exchange for a huge discount on two luxury Manhattan apartments and cash.
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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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A prominent former banker was convicted on Sunday in a $2.2 billion fraud case that drove the Caribbean nation into an economic tailspin four years ago.
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A former Irish government minister  is sentenced to  six months in prison for tax offences.
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Former state airline pilot convicted of murdering leading human rights activist and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment
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Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan and three co-defendants were found guilty of a minor violation and cleared of more serious charges on Monday for blocking the entrance to the U.S. mission to the United Nations during a protest in March.
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A court Thursday convicted a former fisheries official on charges of taking a $3.7 million bribe to allocate fishing quotas to a businessman, news reports said.
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The former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted today of lying to F.B.I. agents and grand jurors investigating the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative amid a burning dispute over the Iraq war.
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An Ethiopian court has convicted former dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam of genocide for atrocities committed during his 1974-1991 Marxist regime after a marathon 12-year trial.
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An 81-year-old Rwandan pastor found guilty of genocide is released after serving his sentence.
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A former Alaska lawmaker accused of getting thousands of dollars out of a corrections-company consultant in exchange for his help in the Legislature was convicted of bribery Monday.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- A former British special forces operative who allegedly led a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea was convicted yesterday of trying to buy weapons from Zimbabwe's state arms manufacturer.
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Saddam Hussein's trusted cousin and lieutenant is found guilty of Kurdish genocide.
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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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Three former election commissioners were convicted Friday of dereliction of duty and sentenced to two years in prison for their role in Thailand's election fiasco.
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A Jordanian man convicted on terror charges is taken off a UN blacklist after co-operating with German officials.
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An Ethiopian court convicted former dictator Haile Mengistu Mariam of genocide today.