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...feds a major coup in their crackdown on corporate crime. Convicted of securities fraud, conspiracy and false regulatory filings, Ebbers, 63, is the highest-profile chief executive to be found guilty in the recent wave of accounting scandals. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he faces up to 85 years in prison, and even if he receives about 20 years, as some legal analysts predict, when he's scheduled to be sentenced in June, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. That's a bad omen for four other prominent execs facing criminal charges: Richard Scrushy, the former chief...
Ebbers' conviction reflects a new calculus for corner-office occupants: that corporate crime may finally equate to lengthy prison terms. Many of the most notorious white collar villains of a generation ago received light sentences compared with what Ebbers faces. Junk-bond king Michael Milken, for instance, served only 22 months for securities fraud. Now CEOs must recognize the risks of an "I didn't know" defense and face the prospect of monumental consequences to go along with their monumental pay packages. That Ebbers lost hundreds of millions himself in the WorldCom collapse--buying more stock even as the company...
...young narcotics offenders receive intensely monitored probation. And Lee has been appointed a special U.S. Attorney, giving him the power to prosecute weapons-for-drugs cases in federal court--a statute that doesn't exist on Virginia state books--where convictions carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison. Says Tazewell sheriff's captain Clarence Tatum: "If we could get rid of Oxy and all the related drugs, we'd wipe out 75% of the crime in this county...
...Army Surgeon General is investigating whether some doctors helped direct what amounts to psychological torture. Though no evidence has surfaced that mental-health professionals sanctioned the beatings and sexual humiliation that guards at Abu Ghraib are accused of inflicting, Army investigators did find that military-intelligence officers at the prison had psychiatrists review their "interrogation plans" for Iraqi detainees. If any mental-health professionals supervised such pressure tactics as sleep deprivation or the use of military dogs to threaten prisoners during interrogations, that would cross an ethical line, says an Army psychiatrist. "We should not be using our abilities...
RELEASED. REBIYA KADEER, 58, prominent Muslim political prisoner; by the Chinese government; in Beijing. Kadeer, a member of the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic group in northwest China's Xinjiang province, was arrested in August 1999 and sentenced to eight years in prison for "providing secret information to foreigners." Her release came in advance of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Beijing. Kadeer immediately flew to the U.S. and, upon arrival in Washington, D.C., told a cheering crowd, "I will keep on fighting for my people until my last breath...