The two -
year prison sentence came as somewhat of a surprise as prosecutors had recommended a two - year suspended sentence.
Not exact matches
Tom DeLay was
sentenced to three
years in a Texas
prison today, and I saw it
coming almost 20
years ago.
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.
Also published on The Huffington Post Tom DeLay was
sentenced to three
years in a Texas
prison today, and I saw it
coming almost 20
years ago.
The verdict Friday
came more than two
years after his first 2015 trial resulted in a 12 -
year prison sentence.
The deliberations, which began Thursday and resumed Friday,
come more than two
years after Silver's first trial resulted in a 12 -
year prison sentence.
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.
The
sentencing came one week after Skelos» Democratic counterpart, former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was
sentenced to 12
years in
prison on corruption charges.
Another successful prosecution
came last
year, when entrepreneur Walter Lian - Heen Liew was
sentenced to 15
years in
prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets related to titanium dioxide production from DuPont and sell them to state - owned companies in China.
Sentenced to life imprisonment, he would languish in
prison for ten
years till his plight
came to the attention of the Innocence Project.
Soejima is serving a three
year prison sentence, and that is where he hears that Akiyama has
come to Osaka on a business trip.
Robbery II is a Class B Felony, which
comes with a minimum penalty of one
year in
prison, and a maximum
sentence of 20
years (10
years in some jurisdictions).
Yesterday's decision by a panel of military officers at Guantanamo Bay to
sentence Salim Ahmed Hamdan to five and a half
years in
prison came as a surprise to many.
With potential penalties that can include fines, court - ordered treatment and significant
prison sentences, the counsel you work with can impact your life for
years or decades to
come.