Word: bails
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...loans by taking out bigger ones. He was charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, and faces a possible prison sentence of as long as 30 years. McNamara has pledged most of his wealth -- including homes in New York and Florida and a private jet -- to make bail, set at a stunning $300 million...
...Sarawak Indigenous People's Alliance, is scheduled to go on trial in September for operating an illegal organization. In the past six years, Mutang, a native Kelabit who grew up in Sarawak's forests, has directed six blockades of logging roads. Arrested in February, he was released on bail after four weeks, including 10 days in solitary confinement in a windowless room. During his imprisonment, he says, three pairs of police officers questioned him for seven or eight hours a day, sometimes until 4 a.m. His interrogators, who threatened him with torture, demanded the names of associates and explanations...
...more than a decade now, Lee Iacocca has been synonymous with Chrysler Corp. -- for good and for ill. Almost singlehandedly he persuaded Congress in 1979 to bail out the ailing car company with a $1.5 billion loan guarantee, then paid back the money seven years ahead of schedule. After two best-selling autobiographies and 11 years of hawking his cars on TV, he became a household fixture...
...done that throughout his career. When he was in U.S. Senate, Tsongas stood up to bipartisan opposition and voted to bail out the Chrysler Corporation--an effort that saved 250,000 jobs...
Brown will probably pick up votes from the recent departure of Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin. Harkin's decision to bail out leaves Brown as the most liberal remaining candidate...