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Meek Mill's supporters have slammed his two - to four - year prison sentence as excessive, but others have argued that Mill knew what he was Meek's lawyers say that the judge has a weird obsession with Meek, which is why she's treating him so harshly.

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.

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The details are disturbing, as Harkov wrote: «Terrorists who have been sentenced to three to five years in Israeli prisons receive the average income of a Palestinian, about $ 580 per month.

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

Croatian police said that a 19 - year - old Croat, whom they described as the owner of webstresser.org, was detained on charges of «serious criminal acts against computer systems, programs and data» that carry a possible sentence of one to eight years in prison.

The Dec. 20 sentencing of Charlie Shrem, one of the digital currency's most vocal cheerleaders as vice-chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and chief executive of an exchange called BitInstant, to two years in prison for illegal money transfers doesn't help.

A 49 - year - old Wilton man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Tuesday for using hedge - fund money for his own personal use as part of a $ 6 million - plus Ponzi scheme.

Those are the words I spoke as a trial judge in 1997 when I sentenced Bobby Bostic to a total of 241 years in prison for his role in two armed robberies he committed when he was just 16 years old.

In part as a result of their activism, Taylor resigned and was later convicted of war crimes; he is now serving a 50 - year prison sentence.

Tim Lambesis from the band As I Lay Dying is serving a six - year prison sentence for plotting to murder his wife Meggan, a revelation that shocked the Christian metal community last year.

The two - year prison sentence came as somewhat of a surprise as prosecutors had recommended a two - year suspended sentence.

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.

This month, the spotlight again fell on Iran's 300,000 - strong Baha'i community as seven national leaders were sentenced to 20 years each in prison for espionage, propaganda against the Islamic republic and the establishment of an illegal administration.

Adam Johnson has been sentenced to six years in prison for engaging in sexual activity with an underage girl, but it has now been revealed that he was also arrested last year on suspicion of possessing animal pornography, as reported by the Mirror.

Phil Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of Lana Clarkson... With Susan Boyle feeling the pressure, sportsbooks no longer have her as the runaway favorite in Britain «s Got Talent... The NCAA baseball regionals are going on.

The matter of Aurier being granted a work permit had been complicated as he was handed a suspended two - month prison sentence last year having been found guilty of assault.

Hoeness, who was reinstated as the club's president last year, oversaw Bayern's youth academy while on parole during a 20 - month prison sentence for tax evasion.

Co-defendant Marshall Thompson, a co-founder of the Chi - Lites soul group, was sentenced last month to a year in prison for acting as a middleman in the extortion scheme.

The memo, which was circulated to prison governors on November 26th, reads: «The criminal casework directorate (CCD) of the Border and Immigration Agency have confirmed to us that as a rule they have no interest in pursuing foreign national prisoners serving sentences of less than 12 months for deportation unless they have a court recommendation for deportation, are already subject to deportation proceedings, or (in the case of non-EEA nationals) were sentenced to less than 12 months but where the current sentence plus one or two previous sentences within the last five years (taking account of the most significant sentences during the period) total 12 months or more.»

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.

«Crime in the streets» was Nixonian code for keeping white people safe from poor minorities, just as «crack babies» justified draconian prison sentences for inner - city cocaine users 20 years later (their white suburban counterparts went to rehab).

Skelos's sentencing comes just over a week after his former counterpart, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a separate case involving the Manhattan Democrat masking bribes as legal referrals.

He faces as much as 130 years in prison when sentenced on July 13.

Ippolito, 78, of Syosset, died last year while serving a 27 - month prison sentence after pleading guilty in January 2016 to evading taxes in connection with $ 2 million in outside consulting fees he received while working as the town's planning and development commissioner.

The postponement, opposed by prosecutors as a delay tactic with little chance of success before the Supreme Court, likely will put off any retrial until next year, buying time for the 73 - year - old former Albany power broker, who had faced a 12 - year prison sentence.

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.

Disgraced former Queens Councilman Ruben Wills cried as he was sentenced to two to six years in prison and ordered to pay almost $ 33,000 in restitution after a jury found him guilty of pocketing some $ 30,000 in city funds.

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.

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.

A former New York state assemblyman has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was caught in a sting operation accepting bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as out - of - town real estate investors.

Bruno was sentenced to two years in prison but never served time as the courts waited to see how the Supreme Court would rule on the related case.

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.

After two weeks of testimony, a man described as a «predator of children» was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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.

On Jan. 30, a slimmed - down Matthews, wearing prison greens, shackled hand and foot and escorted by a pair of state corrections officers, appeared briefly in the hallways of the Ulster County Courthouse en route to a holding pen where he was to await a hearing on his alleged failure to abide by restitution order imposed by the court last year as part of his sentence on two counts of grand larceny.

Former New York State Senator Dean Skelos of Long Island was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison and a $ 500,000 fine over corruption charges, while serving as majority leader.

The right - hand man of the jailed terrorist known as «Hook» was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison Friday for planning to set up an al Qaeda training...

Former Queens Councilman Dan Halloran was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in two corruption schemes, including taking thousands of dollars in bribes to help Malcolm Smith, a Democrat and the former state Senate majority leader, run for New York City mayor in 2013 as a Republican.

David Sweat described conditions at the Clinton Correctional Facility as abusive during his sentencing for his escape from the prison last year.

On Thursday, prosecutors revealed new details on what led Richard Duckett to shoot Roberts, 46, as Duckett was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in Albany County Court.

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.

Sheldon Silver, who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of the state's most powerful and feared politicians as speaker of the New York Assembly, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in prison in a case that came to symbolize Albany's culture of graft.

But in the end, it wasn't enough to avoid prison sentences: six - and - a-half years for Adam; five years plus a $ 500,000 fine for Dean, who, as senate majority leader, strong - armed companies into giving payments and largely no - show jobs to his son.

* Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a «good military man» and «church goer,» was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11 - year - old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.

ELIZABETHTOWN A former Town of Minerva employee who used municipal coffers as her personal bank account for two years has been sentenced to 1 1/3 to 4 years in state prison and ordered to pay restitution... more

Ellner's firm got the work despite his October 1997 guilty plea on tax evasion, for which he was sentenced to 1 month in prison and 3 years» supervised release, as well as a $ 5,000 fine, court records show.

In 2013, he was named as one of the elected officials who was wiretapped by then - State Senator Shirley Huntley, who was sentenced to a year in a prison for embezzling nearly $ 90,000 from a sham nonprofit.

That conviction and a 12 - year prison sentence were tossed out by an appeals court as -LSB-...]

A little more than a week after powerful former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison, his one - time State Senate counterpart learned today that he'll be doing time, as well.