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...refused to pay a $100 fine for requesting service, along with eight other black students, at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and instead opted to do 30 days of hard labor in prison; of unknown causes; in Rock Hill, S.C. What was dubbed the "jail, no bail" tactic relieved activists of a financial burden and inspired similar protests. In 2001, McCullough, the leader of the nine, told fellow protester and journalist David Williamson, "I guess if we had to do it today ... we'd do it again...
...found guilty of mismanaging the poll?which was boycotted by the country's opposition parties and later invalidated by the Constitutional Court?and allowing unqualified candidates to run illegally, giving a boost to the ruling Thai Rak Thai party. The men, who subsequently resigned their posts, were released on bail Friday and will appeal the verdict, which also bars them from political activities for 10 years...
...arrested MEL GIBSON for driving at nearly twice the legal speed--with a blood-alcohol level of .12% (.08% is the state limit)--the A-lister with an image as a sober traditionalist Catholic seemed to be reverting to his Mad Max days. Gibson was released on $5,000 bail and later issued an apology, both for the driving infraction and for what he called his "belligerent" behavior: "I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable." Gibson was arrested...
Eugene M. Plotkin ’00 has been released on $3 million bail after being arrested for his involvement in an insider trading ring that includes stock analysts, a Croatian aunt, and at least one exotic dancer. His pretrial hearing will take place on September 6. According to the criminal complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange commission, Plotkin and former Goldman Sachs analyst David Pajcin organized a “widespread and brazen international scheme of serial insider trading...resulting in at least $6.7 million of illicit gains.” The complaint says that Plotkin and Pajcin...
...Speaking of superpowers, the U.S. filed racketeering charges against you in 1988. You were acquitted, but not before you had to post $5 million bail. The first one to come to my rescue was [Muammar] Gaddafi, who said he was willing to post bail for me even if it were 10 times higher. Even Saddam Hussein sent his foreign minister to ask if there was anything I needed...