Sentences with phrase «federal prison because»

Paul Adler later went to federal prison because he failed to pay taxes after he flipped a proposed golf course in Ramapo.

The Orange County Weekly reports that Daniel, a physician and Pentecostal minister who sold her C - Extract product on Trinity Broadcast Network, received a sentence of «14 years in federal prison because her «brown sludge» was actually made of suntan lotion and beef flavoring.»

Not exact matches

He has an interest in US prison reform because his father, Charles Kushner, served just over a year in federal prison after a conviction in 2005 for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.

Because of the lasting toll it takes on prisoners, President Barack Obama has called on state correction centers to reduce punishment by isolation and banned solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons.

More than four years later, Zambada — who currently resides in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan — still has not been tried, in part because of endless wrangling by prosecutors and defense attorneys on the size and scope of the pretrial legal discovery.

Had Kelley been convicted of sexual assault, he would likely have been prevented from purchasing a gun because federal guidelines prohibit sales to anyone convicted of a felony punishable by more than one year in prison.

It changes the federal penalty to include a maximum of eight years in prison and forces the perpetrator to pay the costs incurred because of the fake call.

But Seabrook remained unapologetic in the Dec. 17 speech, which the city's prison guards have dubbed «Seabrook's Last Supper» because of his upcoming Manhattan federal bribery trial.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2009, but released in 2014 because of good conduct and cooperation in federal probes.

Federal prosecutors say they will not seek prison time for a New York state senator convicted of lying to the FBI about arranging a high - paying job for his son because the former lawmaker is terminally ill.

A federal judge is expected to decide Tuesday whether former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver deserves a long prison sentence for years of corruption, or leniency because he is ill and says he is sorry.

In papers filed Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, Sampson's attorneys claim imposing the 87 - month prison term on July 20 that prosecutors want would «raise significant concerns about unwarranted disparities» — because Skelos got five years.

Gallivan, in an interview, said he did not oppose the governor issuing an executive order, in part because New York is already out of compliance with federal law by housing 16 - and 17 - year - olds with an adult prison population.

Mondello acknowledged that the image of Nassau Republicans has taken a hit because of a series of political indictments, that include former Oyster Bay Commissioner of Planning and Development Frederick Ippolito, who pleaded guilty last year to federal tax evasion and was sent to prison, and Hempstead Town Councilman Edward Ambrosino, who pleaded not guilty earlier this month to federal tax evasion and wire fraud charges.

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

California, for instance, has been ordered by a three - judge federal panel to release more than 40,000 people from prison by December 2011 because it simply can not provide them proper healthcare.

In my opinion, the answer is because the hacker - criminals would be locked up in a federal prison where they belong, and politicians like Cuccinelli would no longer be able to use the convicts» slick lies to confuse people and to persecute climate scientists.

One answer is that you should say «yes», because it is a federal felony (5 years prison term) to say «no», because it is untrue, and you know it is untrue.

Because the New York - based Center for Constitutional Rights «filed a complaint in December with the Federal German Prosecutor's Office against Rumsfeld accusing him of war crimes and torture in connection with detainee abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.»

Because sentencing reform in the form of the SRCA (or anything better) seems unlikely to move until there is a new President and / or Attorney General, criticizing efforts to move forward with just prison reform strikes me as tantamount to resigning oneself to the federal sentencing and corrections status quo until at least 2021.

Most of the people currently in state and federal prisons are there because of a conviction of a drug crime.

Not only has Senator Paul blocked federal drug legislation because it contained mandatory minimums, he's said on the record that «On mandatory minimums, I don't think teenagers accused of possessing drugs should get twenty years in prison.

In his scathing critique of the DAICO, Preston Byrne writes: «I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here, because the SEC literally wrote a report about the original DAO scheme, likened it to a security, and cited as authority for this proposition not one but TWO cases relating to an infamous 1970s pyramid scheme that landed its promoter in federal prison for nearly a decade.»

Federal ministers have generally avoided discussing prisons because they are a state and Territory responsibility.

In contrast to New York, the US Congress has singled out certain classes of women (low - income women, federal employees, military personnel serving overseas, residents of the District of Columbia, and women in federal prisons) and restricted their access to legal abortions because their health care is funded in part by the federal government.