Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...done little to boost support for the statute, the same might be said of independent counsel David Barrett. He was appointed to investigate Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros' misstatements to FBI agents about payments to a former lover. But it's the former lover, Linda Jones, who landed in jail, and the case against her was based on false statements made on a mortgage application. "The problem with the statute is that the prosecutors, with unlimited resources and unlimited time, become obsessed with bringing down the people they are mandated to pursue," says Espy lawyer Ted Wells...
...prosecutors said they couldn't ignore his flagrant crimes. Noriega protested that the U.S. had no jurisdiction over him since his "arrest"--the Panama invasion--violated international law. But U.S. courts said the method of his arrest was irrelevant. Noriega was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in jail...
...Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., was supremely talented: at 6 ft. 4 in. he was speedy and sure-handed. But 19 NFL teams had passed over Moss in the draft because of a record that included a couple of arrests, a probation violation and a one-month stint in jail...
...genius or initiative, that so often created the conditions for business success. By that measure, Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken, who raised billions for the likes of Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch and MCI Corp., should be included, notwithstanding his conviction for violating securities laws and his time spent in jail. Other financial innovators who changed the way we spend and save might also have made the list, including Dee Hock, a little-known businessman who brought the Visa credit card to prominence, and Peter Lynch, who as head of Fidelity's Magellan Fund was America's most successful money manager...
...government indicts GE and 28 other companies for price fixing and fines and penalizes the company heavily. Three GE executives sentenced to jail...