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...also got caught. After being indicted in 1987, Cecola pled guilty to one count of tax evasion for not reporting his insider trading profits, and was slapped with a $21,800 fine by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Business School, which he was attending at the time of the indictment, suspended him with the right to reapply...
...success in overseeing gambling, restaurants and loan-sharking in Manhattan's Little Italy. Then there is John Gotti Jr., 28, cut from the same cloth as his father but widely disliked. Tommy Gambino, son of the family's founding father, once seemed a likely successor, but in February he pled guilty to antitrust charges and was ordered to abandon the trucking monopoly that gave the family control of the garment center...
...brought him millions of dollars. There's no way I was ever gonna turn. It never even entered my mind. What big sin did I commit? I got arrested. I was always prepared to go to jail. I figured I was facing 20; if I pled guilty, I could have gotten 10. I would have been a king in jail. We might have even won the trial. You know, you don't realize how precious a life is until you're in that position where you're gonna get killed, and you'll do anything to survive. And look what...
...protester who rushed toward former Contra leader Adolfo Calero, ending his speech at the Law School last fall, pled guilty in Cambridge District Court last Thursday to charges of disturbing a school and being a disorderly person...
...damage done by those setbacks. The study estimates that the previous jolts have cost the U.S. and its major trading partners a total of $1.2 trillion in lost eco nomic growth between 1974 and 1981. In addition, the increased prices have dou bled unemployment rates and nearly tri pled the pace of inflation. The shares of their gross national products that Western economies spend on energy have also tri pled. Writes Yergin: "Thus, an oil price rise of any given magnitude will now have a greater effect on the consuming nations than the first or second shock...