Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conspiring to violate the Boland amendment, which for two years forbade any direct or indirect Government assistance to the contras. As a civil statute, the amendment provides no penalties, but any Government official or private citizen found guilty of conspiring to violate the law could be sent to jail nonetheless...
...addiction. In Watergate the prosecution offered soft plea bargains in return for the truth. It never got the truth. Poindexter has gotten full immunity. If the Senate doesn't get the truth, we should learn our lesson: Don't ask the guilty to tell the truth; send them to jail...
...planned to defend his client by "prosecuting" the four "vicious predators" who surrounded Goetz on the subway car. Despite an admonition from Judge Stephen Crane, Slotnick referred to Goetz's victims as "drug addicts" and attempted to bring up their criminal records. (Two of the four are in jail on other charges, one for the rape of an adolescent girl, and a third is completing drug rehabilitation. The fourth shooting victim, Darrell Cabey, was left paralyzed from the waist down...
...similar charges against the school's founder and four former teachers were dropped because of insufficient evidence. The five, who are pursuing a joint $50 million defamation and negligence suit, claim their lives were ruined. "It cost us our home," says Betty Raidor, 67, who spent three months in jail until she could make the $750,000 bail. "They pushed the panic button and went on a witch-hunt...
...National Security Council Adviser Robert McFarlane and told them of the expected donation. As matters turned out, there was no money and no prince: the would-be contra benefactor was Mousalreza Ibrahim Zadeh, an expatriate Iranian swindler who has pleaded guilty to bank fraud and faces five years in jail...