Sentences with phrase «year prison sentences»

Seven Baha'i leaders in Iran have each received 20 - year prison sentences, according to reports received by the Baha'i International Community, the group said Sunday.

Not even two years ago, the Finance Ministry said it would pursue seven - year prison sentences for bitcoin users.

For example, Emirates operates a nonstop flight from LAX to Dubai, where possession of even small amounts of marijuana can carry a four - year prison sentence.

Last month, Trump commuted the 27 - year prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, former chief executive of what was the nation's largest kosher meatpacking operation.

Former Hanlong Mining boss Hui Xiao has been handed an eight - year prison sentence by a Sydney court for insider trading with regards to two Perth resources companies.

Also likely hampering Archer's aims was a two - year prison sentence.

(In that case, Durst's team secured a plea deal that gave him only a five - year prison sentence on relatively minor charges of bond jumping and evidence tampering.)

Anwar was convicted in a trial criticised by the U.S. and started a five - year prison sentence last year.

One year ago today, former BitInstant CEO and early Bitcoin proponent Charlie Shrem began serving his two - year prison sentence.

Charged with fraud and embezzlement and facing a 10 - year prison sentence, he went on trial in March in the Podolsk City Court, just south of Moscow.

Yu, on the other hand, was fined 150,000 yuan and given a two - year prison sentence.

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.

Had Iran followed Prophet Mohammed's Islam, no such «hanging judge» would exist, no such eight - year prison sentence would exist, and no such restrictions on Abedini's peaceful preaching would exist.

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

She is facing child - endangerment charges that carry a possible two - to twenty - year prison sentence and a $ 10,000 fine.

I have only ever personally known one person who has undergone such a trial (a trial in both senses of the word): Conrad Black, who appointed me editor of The Catholic Herald about ten years ago and who is now serving a six year prison sentence in Florida.

Evans is still without a club having been released early from his five - year prison sentence, but those who've so far showed an interest in signing him have been lambasted widely in the media.

Former Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano has been handed a one - year prison sentence for tax fraud.

«Blackmail can result in a 14 - year prison sentence, nobody in your UK company brought this fact to your attention?»

Skip forward to the new millennium and we have the latest evolution of Gekko, who has served an eight - year prison sentence and successfully predicted the banking crisis.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's retrial on corruption charges is scheduled to begin Monday in federal court in Manhattan, but his new shot at vindication is expected to be a virtual carbon copy of the 2015 version that ended in his conviction and a 12 - year prison sentence.

And over the course of the 2,935 days since then, Sampson was sentenced to a five - year prison sentence on obstruction of justice charges, and nearly a sixth of the 61 members who served with him at the time were indicted.

The verdict Friday came more than two years after his first 2015 trial resulted in a 12 - year prison sentence.

His 12 - year prison sentence was stayed pending the outcome of the appeal.

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.

Taylor is serving his 50 - year prison sentence in the UK for war crimes related to the conflict in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of former Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., who is serving a 14 - year prison sentence for a scheme to take bribes from a carnival promoter.

Kruger pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges and is serving a seven - year prison sentence.

Religious arbiters claiming full legal powers will face a five year prison sentence under a bill going before the House of Lords this morning.

[85] On the basis of evidence obtained during Operation Nigeria, Rees was found guilty in December 2000 of attempting to pervert the course of justice and received a seven - year prison sentence.

Seminerio had pleaded guilty in June 2009 to taking more than $ 300,000 from Jamaica Hospital administrators to work on behalf of its interests in Albany, and died in January 2011 in the first year of serving a six - year prison sentence in North Carolina.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver got a 12 - year prison sentence and a $ 7 million fine for taking bribes.

A judge says former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver can remain free until at least late October while he appeals his conviction and 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.

Seminerio, 75, died last Thursday while serving the first year of a six - year prison sentence, said Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Former City Councilman Dan Halloran was granted an extra week of freedom Monday before he starts a 10 - year prison sentence on a bribery conviction.

Halloran, a Republican from Queens, began serving a 10 - year prison sentence in Fairton, N.J., in 2015.

Convicted ex-state politician Malcolm Smith turned himself in to a rural Pennsylvania prison Friday to begin serving his 7 year prison sentence for trying to buy his way onto the...

His first, in 2015, ended with a guilty verdict and 12 - year prison sentence - an outcome that was reversed last July by an appeals court that cited a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing public corruption law.

Sir Ian revealed he discussed lowering the minimum age at which a person possessing a gun receives a mandatory five - year prison sentence with the home secretary.

He had also served a one - year prison sentence for breaking into a supermarket safe and stealing 23,000 euros.

Disgraced ex-Queens Councilman Dan Halloran just lost his bid to get his 10 - year prison sentence tossed.

Its biggest - selling paper, then edited by Andy Coulson, recruited Jonathan Rees, a convicted blackmailer straight from a seven - year prison sentence, to add to the newspaper's formidable stable of other hackers, blaggers, bribers and snoopers.

The seven - year prison sentence imposed on crooked ex-state Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith was a shot across the bow of his former Albany associates, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos — ...

The corruption conviction of his onetime right - hand man and political fixer Joseph Percoco, who is now facing a possible 50 - year prison sentence, opened Cuomo up in an election year to a barrage of relentless public attacks from Republicans and no rush from many Democrats to support the head of their party in New York State.

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.

In July, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned his 2015 conviction and 12 - year prison sentence.

Skelos received a five year prison sentence, while his son Adam received a six and a half year sentence.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat prosecuted by Bharara in Manhattan, has his corruption conviction and a 12 - year prison sentence overturned in July.