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When convicted pimp Sterling Godfrey walked out of the federal prison in Atlanta in 1977, after serving nearly five years of a maximum 15-year term, he still owed his $35,000 fine. But Godfrey said he was short of cash, so the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice in the capital obligingly allowed him to pay exactly $10 a month, thus giving him almost three centuries to pay his debt to society. Godfrey fell behind that undemanding schedule, even though the FBI discovered that he had re-established a lucrative prostitution business, opened a bicycle shop and acquired a Cadillac...
Haled before a federal district judge in Washington last week, and threatened with contempt of court, Godfrey agreed to begin paying off his fine at a rate of at least $50 a month during most of the year and $100 a month in the summers, when his bicycle business booms. Godfrey's case followed a similar action against Gambler Alvin Kotz, who in January became the first person in Washington, and perhaps in the entire country, ever convicted of willful failure to pay a criminal fine...
...month, because ae had to support his "aging Italian parents." In fact, he managed to pay a mere $40 in six years, even though he went on gambling trips to Las Vegas, where he tad a $10,000 line of credit at Caesars Palace. Startled by the Kotz and Godfrey cases, the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice in the capital has been reviewing its long list of cons in arrears...
...judges handed out more sentences that prescribe imprisonment if fines are not paid by a certain date. They also urge that payment schedules be set up by judges rather than clerks in the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice, who can be soft touches. It was a clerk who believed Godfrey in 1977 when he said he was "meeting expenses" while working for a group called Elements of Love...
...setting is a fictional town in Tennessee around 1935. Palmerstown looks a little like Haley's native Henning and a lot like the homestead of The Waltons. The premise is reminiscent of Mark Twain: two young boys, one black (Jermain Hodge Johnson) and one white (Brian Godfrey Wilson), are best friends despite the racial barriers that separate their respective families. The two-hour opening show introduces the boys and their parents with the dubious aid of a very frail plot mechanism. The white father, a grocer (Beeson Carroll), mistakenly overcharges his black counter part, a blacksmith (Bill Duke...