Word: slammers
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Former B.C.C.I. second-in-command Swaleh Naqvi was sentenced to eight years in the slammer and ordered to pay $255 million in restitution in connection with federal charges stemming from the biggest bank fraud ever. Naqvi now faces trial in New York Friday on state charges. But Naqvi's boss, B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, is currently in Pakistan and unlikely to be brought to justice, says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne, who covered the scandal. Naqvi has pleaded indigence and probably won't pay the fines levied against him. Still, today's development is a significant victory for the feds...
Germans who deny the Holocaust won't just be treated like nuts; they could be thrown in the slammer. A crime bill that passed both houses of the parliament includes tough measures against neo-Nazi activities in the country -- like five-year jail terms for people who promote the belief that Auschwitz was a lie. Neo-Nazis remain a serious problem in Germany, where they commit three violent, illegal acts every...
...Russia, according to a study released today. The Sentencing Project, a group that promotes alternative sentencing, reports that the incarceration rate here has reached an all-time high of 519 per 100,000 people here. And blacks are six times more likely than whites to be thrown in the slammer...
...refused to testify before a grand jury investigating O.J. Simpson's friend Al Cowlings was thrown in the slammer for contempt of court. John Dunton claims he would be afraid for his life if he testified. In one TV interview, Dunton said he had secondhand information that three people may have been at Nicole Brown Simpson's condo the night she and her friend Ronald Goldman were slain. BTW: Dunton has twice been convicted of forgery and has been deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial in another case.. . . AND ANOTHER YET TO SURFACE? The Los Angeles police are intensifying...
...Death in the Slammer...