Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sander Field, onetime chairman of the city-planning board, was sentenced to pay a $25,000 fine for violating the state security act by selling stock in his bank below its market value to political officials. In the past three years in Philadelphia, a judge has been sent to jail for nine months for check fraud, the chairman of the housing authority advisory board has been convicted of bribery and conspiracy, the stadium construction coordinator has been convicted of extortion, and the former chief court clerk has received a two-to ten-year prison sentence for robbery and fixing cases...
...hatred of the conventional above all. You may remember that Parisian farce of a year or so ago, when Sartre decided to have himself arrested. Well aware of the implications of such an act, the government kept hands off, and while demonstrators all around were hauled off to jail, Sartre went untouched. Much frustrated over a period of months, his comments and conduct became progressively more outrageous, until arrest was unavoidable, and a self-satisfied Sartre was dragged off to martyrdom...
...protection of sources used by their own reporters. In many instances now, the publisher, not the reporter, is the one who will be held in contempt of court if a court order to violate confidentiality is ignored, and there is a lot of difference between sending Punch Sulzberger to jail and sending one of the 300 reporters in his employ...
Threats. When Rivière tried to take over his property, the baroness met him at the door and threatened to kill him. Rivière filed charges against the baroness, who was sentenced to four months in jail. Rivière again tried to take over, but the young baron took a pot shot at him and warned him away. In late February Rivière got the police to accompany him to the chateau, but when they tried to enter, Marie-Agnés shouted: "Not another step. My brother is armed. We will fire...
...were after." Luckily, Infelisi and his wife had taken their infant daughter for a walk. But at last the government is tightening its laws against bugging. According to a draft put before the Cabinet last week, sentences will be increased drastically -from as little as 15 days in jail at present to three years' imprisonment...