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...fine and community service. The few who actually go to jail serve their terms in relatively comfortable minimum-security prisons, get out early for good behavior and are often left with fortunes. Former junk-bond baron Michael Milken served only two years of a 10-year sentence for securities fraud, and, after shelling out more than $1 billion in fines and to settle civil lawsuits, is trying to make do with a piddling sum estimated at $300 million. He was even invited to lecture on ethics in business at ucla...
...council conducted the referendum, but it was marred by charges of misconduct and fraud--including council members allegedly intimidating voters and leaving ballots unsecured in the council office...
...City Councillor William H. Walsh is found guilty on 41 counts of Bank fraud and making false statements after facing trial for seven weeks. Despite numerous calls from his colleagues to step down, Walsh refuses to resign his seat...
...with knowledge of the government's case against Rostenkowski: "It's not a head shot." This means that regardless of what the feds think they can prove the Congressman or his employees did, the prosecutors lack overwhelming evidence to prove it was done with intent to perpetrate a major fraud. The prosecutors believe, moreover, that juries in the District of Columbia tend to favor the defendant. A Rostenkowski confidant says that if the two sides are to reach any kind of accommodation, it will probably be later this week...
...addition, borrowers note that in a recentcompanion case to the prosecution of Walsh, 102counts of bank fraud against attorney Alan H.Segal were dismissed. The difference in that casewas that Judge Edward F. Harrington allowedtestimony about Dime, while Walsh's judge, Mark L.Wolf, ruled such lines of inquiry out of order...