Word: jails
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...find anybody in France who feels sorry for Jean-Marie Messier, the self-promoting former head of Vivendi Universal, who tried to turn the onetime water utility into a glitzy worldwide media giant and ended up driving it to the brink of bankruptcy. But after Messier was held in jail for 36 hours recently by magistrates who opened a formal criminal investigation against him, the big question is no longer how inept he's been. It's whether he was solely responsible for Vivendi's near downfall or is just taking the fall for the failings of the French business...
...SENTENCED. PASTEUR BIZIMUNGU, 54, Rwanda's first President after the 1994 genocide; to 15 years in jail for diverting public funds, inciting civil disobedience and associating with criminals; in Kigali, Rwanda. Bizimungu, a member of Rwanda's majority Hutu ethnic group, came to power with the Tutsi rebels who ended the extremist Hutu-led killing of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He quit the presidency in 2000, and was arrested after forming a political party. Defenders allege his conviction is politically motivated...
...time since his arrest, Cicero was held at Cambridge Hospital and Bridgewater State Hospital before being returned to the Cambridge City Jail, where he currently is incarcerated...
Dalla Santa plead guilty to a reduced charge and was sentenced last summer to a year in jail without the chance of parole. Dalla Santa was incarcerated at the Middlesex House of Corrections in Billerica, Mass...
Soon after his arrest, Middlesex District Court refused to grant Pring-Wilson bail because his knowledge of foreign languages meant he could pose a flight risk. On May 14, 2003 a Superior Court judge released Pring-Wilson from jail on $400,000 bail...