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...Official Secrets Act, according to news reports. The act prohibits the distribution, possession, or collection of any information dubbed as an official secret by any public officer, according to Malaysia Today, a prominent news blog in the country. The act is punishable by up to seven years in prison...
...foundation is headed by former top Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who spent five years in prison on corruption charges and was later convicted of sodomy before the Malaysian Supreme Court overturned the second conviction, prompting his release in September 2004. Both Tan and Ibrahim are members of the People’s Justice Party, which has clashed with Malaysia’s largest political party, the United Malays National Organization...
Three of pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma's top current and former executives skirted a prison sentence in federal court today, winding up instead with three years probation and 400 hours of community service to serve instead. Federal Judge James P. Jones ordered the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin and the three executives to pay a $634.5 million fine for misleading doctors about the narcotic's risk of addiction. The company had touted the drug as less addictive than more traditional narcotics, despite the fact that the pill can easily be crushed and converted into a powerful street drug...
...Rudy Giuliani, did admit to mislabeling the drug from 1996-2001. But how much responsibility does a drug company bear for the bad decisions that individuals make, particularly after the criminal crackdown on OxyContin abuse began? In the end, questions like that may have kept the executives out of prison...
...part, it's a story of people who feel deeply wronged by powerful outsiders. Elsie Gray, who had driven two hours from her home to stand in the rain for the victims' rally, is one of the aggrieved. Her son, a former coal miner, is serving a 15-year prison sentence after being caught with two OxyContin pills and 2.4 grams of cocaine. She was angered that the fines were mostly going to state and federal Medicaid fraud or other health programs, not specifically to rehab programs. And now she feels like these executives would just go back up north...