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Finally, it's official. Two months after prosecutors agreed to a plea bargain with Maryland killer Samuel Sheinbein, an Israeli court officially sentenced him to 24 years in prison for the 1997 killing of fellow teen Alfred Tello. So ends a two-year struggle that strained U.S.-Israeli relations and caused Israel to reevaluate its self-conception as a state of refuge. It started in the fall of 1997, when Sheinbein fled Maryland to Israel soon after the discovery of Tello's burned and dismembered body. Preferring to take his chances with the Israeli justice system, Sheinbein fought extradition back...
Whatever the strength of the government?s case, the company doesn?t appear ready to concede. "They?ve been given a chance to plead guilty to lesser charges over the last few weeks," says Novak, who first reported impending charges and the plea bargaining on TIME.com on October 11. "If the indictment goes ahead it would suggest McDonnell Douglas is taking a tough line," she says. But so is the government. "And for companies such as Loral and Hughes, which are still under investigation over exports to China, a McDonnell Douglas indictment could be cause for concern." If it does...
...accepting a plea bargain and agreeing to pay a $10,000 fine for misleading the FBI, former housing secretary Henry Cisneros has inadvertently added a moral postscript to the already ponderous Clinton-Lewinsky file: While good politicians sometimes pay for telling lies, the truly great ones never do. Cisneros, who served as HUD chief in the first Clinton administration, has at least a few things in common with his former boss. Both men inspired great expectations early in their careers, and both were investigated tirelessly by independent counsels over allegations of extramarital affairs ? and their inevitable aftershocks...
Samuel Sheinbein is one hot potato latke. First, the Maryland teenager put a strain on U.S.-Israel relations by fleeing a murder charge back home and taking advantage of an obscure section of Israeli law to evade extradition. Now, the New York Times reports, he?s accepted a plea bargain with Israeli prosecutors that will see him serve a 24-year sentence that could have him out on parole in 14 years. While that might be a stiff penalty for an 18-year-old in Israel?s courts, it pales before the life-without-parole sentence he faced in Maryland...
...sends Israel every year. While it?s unlikely that the issue will seriously disrupt the U.S.-Israel relationship, it has spurred efforts in Israel to repeal the 1977 law that forbids the extradition of Israelis to stand trial abroad. One American for whom Sheinbein?s plea bargain may be particularly painful: Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison after his conviction in 1985 on charges of spying for Israel. Israel has been quietly pressing for Pollard?s release since last year?s Wye River talks, but the spectacle of a U.S. teen getting lenient treatment...