Word: jails
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...SENTENCED. CHRISTOPHER PIERSON, 40, for emailing fake death notices to people whose relatives went missing in the Dec. 26 tsunami; to six months in jail; in London. Pierson, who pleaded guilty to charges of sending malicious communication and causing a public nuisance, obtained the e-mail addresses from a news website and claimed to represent the U.K.'s Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Thailand. Presiding Judge Daphne Wickham said the hoax caused "indescribable" pain. Pierson's lawyer claimed the father of three was attempting to give families closure...
...When Yushchenko himself was Prime Minister in 1999, he made Tymoshenko his deputy. She forced reluctant businesses to pay cash for energy supplies but when she tried to take on the country's coal industry in Jan. 2001, President Leonid Kuchma fired her. She subsequently spent 42 days in jail on charges of bribery, money laundering, corruption and abuse of power, all of which were eventually thrown out of court. Indeed, no evidence of any of these crimes was ever produced. "So either it just wasn't true or she's the smartest person in the world," says a source...
...former Washington mayor, who left office in disgrace and spent six months in jail after being caught on video smoking crack, is back. The newly elected city councilman boycotted last week's Inaugural because the Federal Government made the city of Washington pay part of the security costs. Earlier, TIME's Perry Bacon Jr. spoke with Marion Barry about his improbable comeback...
...That rap landed him in a federal pen on a 25-year sentence. After serving seven years and four months, he got out in 1995 and, like the con man portrayed in the hit movie Catch Me If You Can, he started helping the feds. "Three weeks out of jail, my arresting officer extended an invitation to speak at an FBI conference on bank fraud," recalls Minkow, 38. "When you're a failure and get a second chance, you don't want to let people down." A new autobiography, Cleaning Up: One Man's Redemptive Journey Through the Seductive World...
...Emboldened though they may be, jail remains a very real possibility for agitators. Yet even those who have been convicted of inciting unrest are receiving help from an unlikely quarter: factory managers and their overseas clients. After the riot at Stella's Dongguan factory, 10 workers including Chen, the migrant worker from Shaanxi, were sentenced by a Dongguan court to serve up to three-and-a-half years in prison for destroying factory property. But Stella's managers (who say they were trying to address workers' complaints when the strike erupted), aided by foreign shoe companies and overseas NGOs, petitioned...