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...have been in jail for most of your daughter's life. How do you weigh responsibilities to your country against those to your family? If you have a conscience and you've made a decision to defy an authoritarian regime-to resist it thoroughly-then you have no choice but to put your personal life second. If I'd thought about my family, my wife, my daughter, I'd definitely have abandoned my mission. But if everyone with a family abandons this kind of mission, then who is left...
...half in solitary confinement, under constant interrogation between my arrest and my trial. It was terrifying and mentally exhausting. In 1998 I decided I didn't owe the authorities any explanations, and I didn't answer a single question. The sentencing process only took a month and I entered jail feeling much more at peace...
...bringing a case. There was evidence of extortion, Spitzer recalls, but it was ambiguous, and cases like this had failed in the past. So he charged the Gambinos with something that could stick, an antitrust violation. Thomas and Joseph Gambino and two other defendants took the deal and avoided jail by pleading guilty, paying $12 million in fines and agreeing to stay out of the business. "It was imaginative and smart," says Cherkasky, who calls Spitzer one of the "best and brightest" lawyers he has worked with...
...that Clarence Thomas felt safe enough to talk out loud about it. More amazingly, the Catholic Church convened a conference in Rome to discuss what to do with pedophile priests. You would think after the first half an hour, when someone said, "How about we put them in jail?" they would all go home. But they kept going, coming up with a long proclamation that, somehow, was something other than "How about we put them in jail...
What the public would perhaps most like to see is Enron's top executives do some jail time. So far, only one of them, former chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, is facing criminal charges, for conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering (he denies wrongdoing). Ex-chairman Ken Lay is expected to be charged with insider trading before long. But lengthy prison sentences for white-collar crimes are rare...