Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fredie was found guilty in Cambridge's Third District Court August 9 and sentenced to 30 days in jail...
...partly because of budget and personnel cuts, although it is difficult to see how even vast hordes of police could stop this particular, elusive racket. Also there has been a concerted lack of interest on the part of the courts and state prosecutors. Only nine buttleggers were sent to jail in New York City last year-seven of them for three months or less...
...fast seems well-deserved, and who lives at 28 with a fatherless child and a mother still bringing her groceries, the authors conclude, "In certain respects her life was a paradox:...Despite her hammerblows against convention, she had always been dependent on her parents--to get her out of jail, to shelter her in times of stress, to support her habits and nurture her ambitions. For all Lisa's rebellion, she had won little independence." Fortunately, such pat answers are rarely proferred; they serve mainly to remind one how little the authors do intrude, a temporary annoyance that underlines their...
...Broadway, a la The Producers and a hot shot land promoter during the '60s boom. In 1967, a little more than a year after he left it, his company, Western Growth Capital, went under, leaving hundreds of investors holding the bag. None have been compensated. Nobody went to jail...
...hiatus, the mild-mannered accountant returned to France from the Greek island of Corfu-tanned, newly bearded and quite penniless. Locked up in Paris' La Santé prison, he faces trial in an affair that has become as labyrinthine as the maze of catacombs that lies under the jail...