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...been on the lam since escaping federal prison in 2001. As Forbes senior editor Luisa Kroll told The Times of London: "He is not available for interviews, but his financial situation is doing quite well." But while he's not the first narco-kingpin to make the list (that dubious honor went to Colombian cocaine czar Pablo Escobar in 1989), Guzman's inclusion has rankled more than a few readers. As one commenter wrote on Forbes.com: "Since you have started glorifying drug lords and letting younger people see them as 'Billionaires,' this will be my last article...
...After Madoff's guilty plea, Judge Chin, citing flight risk, denied bail, sending Madoff to jail immediately. The charges against him could result in a sentence of up to 150 years in prison. He will face sentencing June...
...martyrs and miscreants, Iraqis are divided over which label applies to Muntazer al-Zaidi. The once obscure television journalist who shot to fame for hurling his footwear at then President George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference late last year was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison after being found guilty of "assaulting a foreign leader on an official visit." But despite the verdict of Baghdad's Central Criminal Court, many ordinary Iraqis still hail the 30-year-old Shi'ite shoe thrower as a national hero...
...standard law-enforcement methods have failed: Gang members, whose whole life revolves around conflict with the police, value prison as an expected part of the life cycle, and see death as a price to be paid for posthumous respect. [Drug-related] arrests and seizures do not have a lasting impact on them...
...women's outfits. The bill was supported by hard-line Islamic groups, who believed its passage could counter moral degeneracy among Indonesian Muslims. So far, the law hasn't been applied in a significant way, although contemporary artists and others are worried they could be targets of its harsh prison sentences, which include a maximum of 10 years' in jail for "any person who exhibits themselves or others in a performance...that contains nudity, sexual exploitation...