Sentences with phrase «federal prison as»

Based on the novels by Joe Lansdale, the six - part series stars James as Hap Collins, a working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War — Watch the trailer below!

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Statistics from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, up to date as of October 2001, make it even clearer how few white - collar criminals are behind bars.

He was sentenced to life in prison last month, though federal guidelines stated he could have served as few as twenty years.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

It came crashing down hard on Friday as a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to serve the rest of his life in prison, following his earlier conviction on seven charges related to conspiracy, narcotics and money - laundering.

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, is potentially facing years in prison as federal agents look into payoffs to a pair of women who claim they had affairs with Trump before he won the White House.

Bradley Birkenfeld was released from federal prison in August 2012 after serving 2 1/2 years for his role as a Swiss banker hiding millions of dollars for wealthy American clients.

A former Highlandtown businessman just out of federal prison was identified as the victim fatally shot by masked men in a neighborhood barbershop Monday evening.

Dwayne Carter, more popularly known as Lil» Wayne, finished serving 8 months in federal prison for charges of attempted weapons possession back in 2007....

It was the summer of 2009, and I had just completed an almost 11 - year sentence in federal prison for my role in five bank robberies I had committed as a foolish young man.

LOL Re: «magnificent new channel» from creationtard Eric Hovind — son of convicted tax dodger Kent Hovind whose occupation is listed by Wikipedia as «Evangelist, Christian theme park operator» and whose residence is listed as «incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution at Berlin, New Hampshire by the Federal Bureau of Prisons».

I would like to use your Lentil Walnut Apple Loaf photo (with the recipe title) as one of four photos to represent on Change.org the Canadian petition e-1205 asking the government to offer a mandatory vegan option in all federal and provincial public establishments such as schools, hospital, prisons, ect

A Vick in his prime, who would've avoided federal prison and played for the guru Petrino, who would then stay on as Falcons head coach for more than just 13 games in 2007.

An explosive run as a rookie head coach at Louisville, demanding and then abandoning a 10 - year contract for the NFL in a moment that helped cement his heel persona, a superstar NFL player sent to federal prison, a midnight flight to take over a SEC program shortly after, an employee sex scandal that imploded a potential BCS title contender, and finally, a chance to keep his family together in one state and restart his career.

On Sept. 4, to the cheers of fellow inmates wishing him well, Dennis Dale McLain, 43, walked out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala., where he had just finished serving almost as many months in prison (29 1/2) as games he had won pitching (31) for the Detroit Tigers in 1968 — the year he was the dominant player in baseball, the American League's Most Valuable Player and winner of its Cy Young Award.

After that six weeks in Sanford, McLain spent short stretches at two other jails before he wound up in what he regards as the very bottom of the belly of the beast, the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, the federal prison that two months after his release would become a site of rioting, destruction and hostage - taking by Cuban - born inmates.

A veteran of more than 50 years in government — 22 years as alderman — Roti was convicted of racketeering and extortion, for which he spent four years at a federal prison in Oxford, Wis..

«We hope that discussions between Lagos State Government and Federal Government over Federal Government lands and state lands within Lagos, as well as over disuse or surplus lands which Federal Government especially Defence and Prisons are still occupying in Lagos, and are now surplus to requirement, will be held to settle this palaver once and for all,» Okunnu said.

A federal judge denied former Suffolk County Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh's motion for a new trial, and ordered him to report to prison in October to begin serving a two - year sentence for illegally pocketing over $ 200,000 in salary and overtime in his job as a lieutenant in the county sheriff's department.

The Joe Percoco corruption trial resumes this afternoon in federal court in Manhattan, with disgraced ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, who has been spending his night in jail since late last week, appearing in a business suit — not prison garb — as per the judge's orders.

Jimmy Carter signed legislation to support the improve a community mental health center approach, though federal funding dipped massively in the early 1980s as the Ronald Reagan administration repealed the law and paved for the way for many mentally ill people to end up on the streets or in prison.

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«It is my humble honor to stand here today as a candidate for governor, as a mayor of the largest city but also as an imperfect human being,» said Ganim, who spent seven years in prison on federal corruption charges.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he gained from illegal kickback schemes, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

Federal prosecutors recommended that David Wildstein, who has described himself as the mastermind of the so - called Bridgegate scandal, serve no prison time as a result of his testimony against his co-conspirators, which followed his guilty plea.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he stole from the public, as well as pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

What Mr. Silver didn't say: He is trying to keep his taxpayer - financed pension, trying to stay out of prison and trying to forfeit as little cash as possible from the schemes that the federal government says netted him more than $ 5 million over the decades.

A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Seminerio to six years in prison Feb. 4 for abusing his power as a lawmaker and extorting money out of hospitals, nonprofits and other groups in exchange for lobbying state officials on their behalf.

Now the two ex-lawmakers are on their way to prison — even as de Blasio waves a red flag at federal prosecutors.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he stole from the public, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who endured for decades as one of the most powerful figures in state government, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in November on multiple corruption charges.

Burke — convicted of federal obstruction and civil rights charges — also will continue to collect his $ 145,485 annual pension as he sits in federal prison.

A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.

Justice E.S Chukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, Tuesday, admitted as evidence, a compact disc (CD) tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to the effect that the statements of Imaobong Akon Esu - Nte, an accountant with the Nigeria Prison Service and five others being prosecuted by the agency were voluntarily rendered.

Dean Skelos, the once mighty Senate Republican who was addressed by colleagues as «Leader» before his political career collapsed last year, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison following his conviction on federal corruption charges.

Ganim, after all, served a dozen years as mayor before a conviction for corruption sent him to federal prison for seven...

Rowland resigned as governor in mid-2004, pleaded guilty to corruption, and spent 10 months in federal prison before assuming his current role as an afternoon radio talk show host on WTIC 1080 AM.

Bellone installed Sini as commissioner following the resignation of former Chief of Department James Burke, a Bellone appointee who is currently serving a 46 - month sentence in federal prison for beating a suspect and orchestrating a cover - up.

The Chief Judge disclosed that the interim order became necessary as the prosecution could not provide a federal prison in Abuja that has the required health facilities that will take care of the health condition of Senator Melaye.

As Ivey will tell you, she had about three hours to prepare before taking over the governorship, coming into office at the height of a controversy that forced out her predecessor and inheriting a prison system under federal court order.

In a letter Friday, federal prosecutors urged a judge to stick to her guns and order former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to start serving his 12 - year prison sentence as scheduled on August 31.

Her opponents and newspaper stories have portrayed Cancel as a «crony» of Sheldon Silver, the former speaker soon headed to prison for federal corruption crimes.

As of last December, less than 23,000 federal inmates were housed in private prisons.

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N3.5 billion for the purchase of 320 operational vehicles for Nigeria Prison Service as part of efforts to decongest prisons across the country.

Cor's «continued existence as a company and legal entity - and its ability to develop the Inner Harbor property - is uncertain in light of, among other things, its two primary officers facing the prospect of potentially lengthy federal prison sentences,» city lawyers wrote in legal papers filed Tuesday.

WHITE PLAINS — Condemning him for having «corrupted the Democratic process,» a federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Malcolm A. Smith, former majority leader of the New York State Senate, to seven years in prison for consenting to the payment of tens of thousands of dollars to Republican Party leaders to permit him, as a registered Queens Democrat, to run for mayor in 2013 on their party's line.

In a surprise, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Kimba Wood hit Skelos» surly scion Adam with an even longer prison sentence — 6 1/2 years — as a «deterrence.»

Ganim, a Democrat, has many supporters in Bridgeport, where he unseated Bill Finch, the incumbent mayor, but his attractiveness as a statewide candidate is tarnished by the 2003 corruption conviction that landed him in federal prison.

A federal judge Tuesday denied former Suffolk County Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh's motion for a new trial, and ordered him to report to prison in October to begin serving a two - year sentence for illegally pocketing over $ 200,000 in salary and overtime in his job as a lieutenant in the county sheriff's department.

Because he put the corrupt in prison as a federal prosecutor, and has led the charge to clean up Albany as a legislator.»