Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, after deliberating 11 1/2 hours on testimony heard during a four- week trial, a jury in nearby Fort Myers found her son Steven Benson, 35, guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, two of felony murder and five relating to arson and unlawful explosives. Judge Hugh D. Hayes Jr. said he intended to heed the jury's recommendation for life in prison when formal sentencing occurs next month...
Critics of RICO in the business community insist that Congress never intended the law to be used against legitimate enterprises. Yet a recent 15:35American Bar Association study found that only 9% of the civil RICO suits it sampled had allegations of typical Mob crimes, like arson, bribery or extortion. Most of the rest simply alleged securities or commercial frauds. Often even garden-variety contract disputes have RICO charges thrown...
Henry Hill's specialties included arson, auto theft, bookmaking, bribery, drug dealing, horse-race fixing, credit-card fraud, extortion and freight hijacking. He organized the much publicized 1978-79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme and helped plan the $6 million Lufthansa holdup at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...
What good does this do? Are these two a threat to the university community? I think not. Have they learned their lesson, to act more responsibly in the future? How could anyone possibly go through the trauma of being arrested on charges of arson and prosecuted and not learn? Is the Ad Board making an example of these two, so that this type of occurrence never happens again? Given the fact that it didn't publicize the suspensions, very few people will have been made aware of what happened to my roommates. So let's think about it--no threat...
...Cambridge District Court hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, when the students said they will attempt to have the charges against themreduced from arson, a felony which impliespre-meditation of the crime, to wanton destructionof property, a misdemeanor...