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Former Lt. Gov. Earle Morris was sentenced Friday to nearly four years in prison for misleading investors about the securities firm he led before it collapsed in the state's biggest bankruptcy.
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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 former judge convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials by using a sexual device under his robe was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
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The former acting mayor of a sleepy mill town on the Alabama-Georgia line was convicted Tuesday of murdering his wife while on a lunch break six 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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A court in Palermo convicted Sicily's governor Friday of helping a Mafia boss and sentenced him to five years in prison.
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Louisville businessman Vernon L. Jackson was sentenced yesterday to seven years and three months in federal prison for bribing Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) with more than $400,000 and company stock to promote his Kentucky firm's high-tech business ventures.
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Former South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, once seen as a rising political star, pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
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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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Spencer Stolpen, former president of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, was sentenced to 15 months in prison Monday for scheming to defraud banks to pay off his mounting debts.
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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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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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NEW HAVEN, Conn.  - Former Connecticut Gov. John  Rowland pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal corruption  charges that will almost certainly send him to jail for  accepting perks from state contractors.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- 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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PLEA DEAL: Ending a two-year federal investigation, former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland pleaded guilty to a felony count of conspiracy to steal honest services.
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A former high school football star given 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager was freed Friday by Georgia's highest court, which ruled that his sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.