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...gave away the contributions he took from Abramoff and his clients, Montana Senator Burns, who heads the subcommittee that controls Interior's budget and is up for re-election, will continue to face questions about every move he made that helped the lobbyist. "I hope he goes to jail and we never see him again," Burns said in yet another interview on the subject with a Montana television station. "I wish he'd never been born, to be be right honest with...
CONVICTION UPHELD. Of MARTHA STEWART, 64, homemaking CEO who had pursued the appeal of her 2004 conviction for lying about why she sold ImClone stock that fell in price soon after her trade; despite having completed her jail sentence for the crime; by a federal judge; in New York City...
...last Friday the Justice Department opened an investigation into who leaked the existence of the NSA program to the Times, raising the prospect of Risen's being compelled to reveal the identities of the "nearly dozen" current and former officials who spoke to him about the program or face jail time for contempt of court...
...DIED. VINCENT (CHIN) GIGANTE, 77, Mafia boss who feigned mental illness for decades to avoid jail; in prison in Springfield, Missouri, on Dec. 19. The empire of the pompadoured head of New York's Genovese crime family once ranged from Little Italy's street fairs to Miami's shipping docks. The "Oddfather" sometimes wandered about Greenwich Village in a tattered bathrobe muttering incoherently, and was once discovered naked in the shower holding an umbrella by federal agents delivering a subpoena. The ex-boxer was convicted in 1997 on racketeering charges. He later admitted his deception...
...been published in English for the first time. Hwang, one of South Korea's most famous writers, spent five years in prison for a 1989 trip to Pyongyang, flouting a ban on unauthorized contact with the North. He was pardoned by President Kim Dae Jung, but a stint in jail clearly failed to dent his taste for controversy. The Guest, the title of which is a translation of the Korean term for the imported disease of smallpox, describes what Hwang sees as the pernicious influence of "cultural imperialism" on Korea. He focuses on a massacre that took place in late...