Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Looking pale and drawn, Artist Edith Irving, 39, was paroled last week from a Swiss jail. She had served 14 months of a 24-month sentence, which was slightly less than the sentence imposed by a U.S. court on Husband Clifford Irving for masterminding the Howard Hughes hoax that put them both in the pokey. Edith was met by Emil Stengelé, a wealthy Zurich art-gallery owner who has bought the many paintings she made in prison for exhibition later this month. Her time behind bars revealed Edith's tough side: she disarmed an inmate who was attacking...
...seeking only civil penalties-injunctions or consent decrees barring the defendants from committing the same acts again. But a federal grand jury in Philadelphia is investigating the possibility that some former Penn Central officers broke criminal laws and thus may be liable to jail sentences...
That is the thing I have told everybody around here ... If you are going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe...
...Well, you can follow these characters to their Gethsemane. I feel for those poor guys in jail, particularly for Hunt with his wife dead. [She had been killed in a plane crash while delivering $10,000 in hush money for Watergate defendants...
...blues singers would have put it, he was a real bad-ass man. While still a kid in California, he escaped from two reform schools seven times. At age 18 he moved on to car theft. That drew him ten months in the Ventura County jail. Next time came a 90-day sentence for raiding a scrap-metal yard...