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Former Deputy Attorney General Webster Hubbell, a confidant of President Clinton and the highest-ranking casualty of the Whitewater investigation so far, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clientsat the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clintonwere partners.TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that Hubbell had asked for a reduced sentence of 16 months, in part because of past charitable contributions and his cooperation with Whitewater prosecutors. (Many of the donations, by the way, reportedly came from stolen money.) The judge drew his response today from the Gospel of Luke: "For unto whomsoever much is given...
...York Daily News that she hasn't been doing her own community service. Helmsley, 74, allegedly had the domestic staff at her Arizona home stuff envelopes and wrap presents for volunteers at a local hospital. Helmsley was convicted of tax evasion in 1989 and served 18 months in prison, but still has to complete 250 hours of community service. Neither she nor the U.S. probation office would comment on the report...
...federal judge in Detroit dismissed charges against Jake Baker,the former University of Michigan sophomore who was expelled and arrested for publishing a rape-murder fantasy about a fellow student on a computer bulletin board. The chance that Baker, 21, would serve five years in prison for "transmitting a threat across state lines" (electronically) had frightened other online provocateurs and promised to be a test-case for censorship in cyberspace. TIME's Wendy Cole, who has interviewed Baker, says he severely regretted naming the other student in his fiction. Judge Avern Cohn, in his dismissal order today, noted that...
...Communications Decency Act -- whichcleared the Senate overwhelmingly last week-- was "clearly a violation of free speech and it's a violation of the right of adults to communicate with each other." The amendment to a massive telecommunications reform package would impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years forknowingly transmitting "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures or commentsover electronic networks accessible to anyone under 18. Gingrich, an Internet enthusiast, acknowledged serious First Amendment and enforcement concerns and called the Senate bill "very badly thought out and not very productive." House members...
...investigators came up empty after trudging through Vietnamese rice fields Sunday to check allegations by former North Carolina Rep. Billy Hendon that American prisoners of war were still imprisoned in a particular region. They found neither traces of POWs nor the mountain Hendon's contacts had described as the location of the prison where the Americans were being held...