Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Accounting Office (GAO) is designed to encourage tipsters to turn in workers, contractors and benefit recipients suspected of bilking the Federal Government. Since it opened in 1979, says a new GAO report, the hot line has handled 53,000 calls; 1,110 complaints have been substantiated, resulting in jail sentences, fines, reprimands and loss of Government contracts. Says Gary Carbone, director of the hot line: "The phones have been ringing off the hook...
...noticed as squads of armored cars raced through the streets and gun-toting officers cordoned off the city into three sections. Nor, except for the street cleaners, who were just beginning their rounds, did anyone see the law men begin rousing out of their beds and hustling off to jail the men whose names appeared on a single, shock ingly long arrest warrant...
...police, Italian authorities had conducted one of the biggest crack downs on the Mafia since Dictator Benito Mussolini's relentless suppression of that fabled criminal organization in the 1920s. Armed with copies of the warrant for the arrest of 366 Mafia members, 140 of whom were already in jail, police rounded up 53. By the time the sun rose, the jails that had been set aside for the operation were overflowing. Before the morning was well advanced, a chartered Alitalia DC-9 had left Palermo, carrying the stunned Mafiosi to prisons in northern Italy, not to protect them...
...treaty also allows a person convicted in one country to be extradited to the other before having served a full jail sentence. The day the agreement went into effect, U.S. marshals hustled Michele Sindona, an Italian citizen serving a 25-year term in a U.S. federal prison for various offenses in connection with the collapse of the Franklin National Bank, aboard a flight to Milan. He faces trial there on charges stemming from the failure of his Italian financial empire. If Sindona is convicted in Italy, he will still have to be returned to the U.S. to serve...
Meanwhile, though the Ad Hoe Committee's plan to join Reverend Moon in jail has proved unfeasible for reasons having to do with common sense, they have held demonstrations supporting Moon in New York and New Jersey, and they are reportedly considering, demonstrating outside the prison walls...