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...call girl ring -- but deadlocked on two other charges and acquitted her of selling cocaine to an undercover cop. The 28-year-old Fleiss, who had been arrested after providing $1,500 prostitutes for policemen posing as businessmen, slammed her hands on the table in frustration. She faces a maximum of six years in prison. (The trial shed no light on the identities of her supposedly-famous clients, since the judge ruled that information irrelevant.) BTW: The courtroom heat's not off yet: Fleiss and her father face a federal court trial in January on related charges of money laundering...
Paul Hill got a heavy sentence today -- even before the justice system deals withhis acts of murder. Today, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson punished the antiabortion protester by giving him two life sentences in prison -- the maximum allowed by law for violating a new federal clinic-protection law. Next week, a judge will decide whether Hill should get the electric chair in connection with the July slayings in Tampa of Dr. John Bayard Britton and his volunteer bodyguard, retired Air Force Lt. Col. James Barrett. Hill today would not express remorse for his actions. "I was trying to prevent...
Just nine hours before its 9 a.m. deadline, a divided City Council voted last night to petition the state legislature to preserve rent control for a maximum of five years, but only for certain categories of tenants...
With the three other Independent councillors--Vice Mayor Sheila T. Russell and Councillors Michael A. Sullivan and Timothy J. Toomey Jr.--Walsh sponsored his own proposal Monday, to keep rent control for low-income, elderly and handicapped tenants for a maximum of three years...
Working to extract the maximum profit from each consumer is, after all, a time-honored way of doing business. But not a very cooperative...