Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response was considerably less harsh than it might have been. The Government could have ordered an outright ban on exports to the States by the two companies, along with fines and jail terms for their executives. The action, said Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, "represents a measured response that we hope will dissuade other firms from violating U.S. regulations...
...prosecute Donovan. TIME has learned that Silverman's investigators had in fact questioned Nat Masselli at least once in the renewed probe. William Masselli was recently transferred from a prison near Lake Placid, N.Y., where he is serving a seven-year sentence for hijacking, to a Manhattan jail in preparation for his appearance before a grand jury investigating new charges against Donovan. The FBI is looking into the Masselli assassination as a possible obstruction of justice. It is the FBI's second such probe. Last June, the body of Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman who was alleged...
Harry Seigler, on trial in Richmond for robbery and murder, was sitting in a courthouse jail cell one afternoon last week, awaiting the jury's verdict. Charged with robbing a local insurance salesman last December and then slashing his throat, Seigler, 30, had pleaded not guilty...
...life and has been for the past dozen years." Belden Menkus, a top security consultant with offices in New Jersey, offers an even more sweeping assessment. Says he: "If you were to prosecute all companies doing industrial espionage, you would have to put most of the Fortune 500 into jail...
...little as 100 on the dollar). The stamps are then resold several times, moving from one middleman to the next before being turned in at a bank by a grocery store. All such transactions violate the U.S. Criminal Code and carry penalties of up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine...