Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arriving back in the U.S. under heavy security, Friedland had little time to enjoy his homecoming. Two days after his return, he began serving a seven- year outstanding jail sentence...
...comfortable, family-oriented city, has taken action. This fall the city council unanimously passed an ordinance making it illegal to "aggressively beg." The law forbids strong- arm tactics as well as the obstruction of pedestrian and automobile traffic. Offenders face a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Business leaders, the police and groups representing the elderly are elated, while advocates for the homeless, antipoverty workers and civil libertarians are appalled...
Meanwhile, Razo, who could face up to 19 years in prison if convicted for the 10 alleged robberies, remains in jail on $100,000 bail. A superior court judge last month denied a motion by Razo's attorneys to decrease the bail to $30,000, said Jim Eger, the public defender...
...activist for victims of the Biafran war in Nigeria and, briefly, presidential candidate of the American Independent Party in 1980 (he turned down the nod, he says, because the party was too right wing even for him). A New York University dropout, Downey once spent two months in jail for passing a bad check, an incident he mentions freely on the air. In 1982 he answered a newspaper ad and landed a job as talk-radio host in Orlando. He later honed his act in Sacramento, Cleveland and Chicago...
Even though he rattled off the sentences so rapidly that he sounded like a tobacco auctioneer, Presiding Judge Alfonso Giordano needed one hour and 40 minutes to reach the end of the list. When he finally finished, 338 members of the Mafia were sent to jail for crimes ranging from murder to drug trafficking. The remaining 114 on trial were acquitted by the eight-member court that met in a heavily guarded Palermo courtroom crowded with specially built cages to hold the 452 defendants. Thus ended, nearly two years after it had begun, the biggest Mafia trial in Italian history...