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...Gramophone on a pedestal, represent? A souvenir of a TV extravaganza. A talisman of mainstream commercial success. A bit of show-biz immortality that, since this is show biz, after all, is more tenuous and suspect than other varieties of eternal fame (anyone remember 1980's five-Grammy grand slammer Christopher Cross?). Sinead O'Connor is right: the Grammys probably do "respect mostly material gain." But in the words of a very prominent Grammy wanna-grab, we're living in a material world...
Fast-buck artists take note: get yourself arrested in New York City, and you could be $150 to the good if you're kept in the slammer for a night without proper amenities. That is precisely how much U.S. District Judge Morris Lasker last week ordered the city's correction department to pay every suspect kept for more than 24 hours in a holding pen that rates below minimal standards. The unusual decision culminates more than a decade of feuding between Lasker and the city over the condition of its jail cells, many of which do not have beds...
...March. Once he begins his term, Milken can be eligible for parole at any time. But experts said he would probably serve at least three years of the 10-year sentence because of the importance of the case as a deterrent to white-collar crime. Once Milken leaves the slammer, he will have to perform 5,400 hours of community service over three years...
...much time should America's most famous Wall Street criminal spend in the slammer? Junk-bond king Michael Milken, who is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 1, could get up to 28 years. He has already been punished financially: last April, when Milken reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to six of the 98 counts of securities fraud and other crimes leveled against him, he was ordered to pay $200 million in fines and $400 million in restitution. Scores of Milken's friends -- and a smattering of his foes -- have deluged New York Federal District Court Judge Kimba...
...back four decades, with arrests for bookmaking, gambling, receiving stolen goods and handgun possession. In most cases the charges were dropped or reduced, but in the early 1960s Gigante served five years in prison on drug charges, along with then godfather Vito Genovese. He apparently resolved to avoid the slammer: before this May, Gigante was arrested only once more, in 1970 on charges of trying to bribe the entire police force of Old Tappan, N.J. Gigante got the charges dropped after submitting a hospital report stating that he was mentally unfit to stand trial...