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...York. When authorities raided his business and home in Nevada, they confiscated $286,000 in cash. DiNola eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 1 1/2 to three years in prison and fined $15,000. A dozen others also pleaded guilty and were given sentences ranging from probation to jail time...
SENTENCED. JOSE BOVE, 47, media-savvy French sheep farmer and anti-globalization hero; to three months in jail, for ransacking a half-built McDonald's last year in Millau, France...
Last November the government was forced to release Nasser Ahmed, who had spent 3 1/2 years in jail without ever being tried or formally charged with a crime. He had been a translator for Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to blow up the U.N. building. The FBI claimed that Ahmed, who had been arrested in 1996 for overstaying his visa, had relayed a message from Abdel-Rahman that sparked a terrorist bombing in Egypt. As in the case of Wen Ho Lee, Ahmed was held without being shown the evidence against...
When the Justice Department was criticized for its handling of the Lee case, Assistant U.S. Attorney George Stamboulidis said it was Lee who "held the keys to his jail cell." But in cases like these, it's the prosecution that's in charge of the locks...
...group to home in on Liechtenstein's peccadillos. Last May the nation of 32,000 people was shaken to learn that Austrian police called in by the government had detained four men on suspicion of fraud, misuse of funds and money laundering. The four, who were subsequently released from jail uncharged, included Gabriel Marxer, a legislator in the 25-member parliament, and Rudolf Ritter, brother of Deputy Prime Minister Michael Ritter. Legislators agreed to lift Marxer's parliamentary immunity to allow him to be detained. In a separate action, police searched and carted away documents from two banks, the Hypo...