International Business News - Sentence http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A woman who initially lied about her identity and still denies driving a van that slammed into a school bus, killing four children, was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/woman-gets-nearly-13-years-in-fatal-minn-crash.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:25:24 EDT A one-time admirer of Osama bin Laden who plotted a hand-grenade attack at a mall jammed with Christmas shoppers--and tried to trade two stereo speakers for the weapons--was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/islam-convert-gets-35-years-in-plot-to-attack-mall.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:57:17 EDT Former Westar Energy CEO David Wittig loses another round in his fight to avoid returning to prison over a 2003 bank fraud conviction. In June, a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver upheld a 24-month sentence for Wittig. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/kan-court-rejects-review-of-wittig-sentence.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:58:14 EDT A co-founder of Savvis Communications Corp. has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for sending threatening e-mails and voice mail to his brother-in-law. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/savvis-co-founder-gets-more-than-2-years-in-prison.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:14:03 EDT A Honduran court has sentenced a former prison official to 1,051 years in jail for the deaths of 69 people in a 2003 prison massacre. The three-judge panel announced its largely symbolic verdict against prison official Dimas Antonio Benitez on Saturday. Honduran law says people can't be jailed for more than 30 years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/honduras-issues-1-051-year-sentence-in-massacre.htm Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:47:40 EDT A federal judge has sentenced a Meriden, Conn., woman to a year of house arrest for embezzling nearly $95,000 from Wachovia Bank. Thirty-eight-year-old Carrie Quinon had been charged with stealing the money during a four-year period in which she worked for the bank as a service technician specialist. She worked for the bank from May 2003 through November 2007. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/connecticut-woman-sentenced-for-bank-embezzlement.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:31:27 EDT A newspaper says a British citizen who spent 20 years on death row before being released is behind bars in his Scottish homeland. The (Toledo) Blade reports on its Web site that Kenneth Richey is awaiting a bail hearing in Edinburgh (EH'-din-bur-uh) on an assault charge. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/report-former-ohio-inmate-behind-bars-in-scotland.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:29:45 EDT Anti-tobacco lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has reported to a federal prison in eastern Kentucky. Prison spokesman Larry E. Whitman says Scruggs entered a federal prison in Ashland at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday. He is beginning a five-year sentence for conspiring to bribe a judge with $50,000. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080804/anti-tobacco-lawyer-scruggs-reports-to-ky-prison.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:52:26 EDT Fighting back tears and apologizing to his teenage daughters, the former head of the Illinois prison system was sentenced to two years in federal prison for taking payoffs from lobbyists. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/former-head-of-ill-prisons-sentenced-to-2-years.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:46:51 EDT A Dubuque businessman will soon begin serving a 10-year prison sentence for bankruptcy fraud. Prosecutors said it's the longest sentence ever imposed for that crime in federal court in Cedar Rapids. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/iowa-man-sent-to-prison-for-bankruptcy-fraud.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:24:16 EDT A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years. A day after finding James Kevin Pope guilty, jurors sentenced him to 40 life prison terms--one for each sex assault conviction--and 20 years for each of the three sexual performance of a child convictions. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/texas-man-gets-4-060-years-in-prison-for-sex-abuse.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:36:00 EDT Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, who became one of the wealthiest civil lawsuit attorneys in the country by taking on tobacco, asbestos and insurance companies, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe a judge. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/81181-scruggs-sentence.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/attorney-who-took-on-big-tobacco-faces-sentencing.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/attorney-who-took-on-big-tobacco-faces-sentencing.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:22:11 EDT From Navy fighter pilot to prominent attorney, Richard "Dickie" Scruggs parlayed his Southern charm and legal savvy into a career that earned him hundreds of millions of dollars taking on tobacco, asbestos and insurance companies. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/80170-scruggs-sentence.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/attorney-who-took-on-big-tobacco-faces-sentencing.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/attorney-who-took-on-big-tobacco-faces-sentencing.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:22:34 EDT A federal judge threw out the conviction and sentence Thursday for an Iranian woman who had pleaded guilty in a scheme to illegally obtain U.S.-made military night vision goggles for Iran. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/judge-voids-conviction-for-iranian-in-goggles-case.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:17:03 EDT Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called Saturday for his country's thousands of death sentences to be commuted to life in prison as part of a birthday tribute to slain leader Benazir Bhutto. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080621/pakistan-leader-wants-death-sentences-commuted.htm Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:06:48 EDT A man who authorities say sometimes refereed fights involving former NFL star Michael Vick's dogfighting operation has been sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080617/dogfighter-tied-to-michael-vick-gets-13-plus-years.htm Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:55:44 EDT Indicted in a scheme to obtain night vision goggles for Iran, Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan decided after three years to turn herself in. She had a deal to plead guilty, get time served and go home to her twin daughters. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080611/plea-deal-implodes-strands-iranian-in-us-prison.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:02:30 EDT A judge has ordered a 25-year prison term for a Massachusetts man who admitted he filmed himself sexually assaulting at least 30 young girls during annual trips to Southeast Asia over more than a decade. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080610/massachusetts-man-gets-25-years-for-child-porn.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:09:00 EDT Federal prosecutors are no longer seeking stiffer prison sentences for former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, but have not said why. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080604/prosecutors-drop-appeal-of-siegelman-and-scrushy-sentences.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:49:10 EDT An Afghan journalism student sentenced to death for insulting Islam denied the charges before an appeals court Sunday, saying he only confessed to questioning the religion's treatment of women because he was tortured. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/afghan-journalist-appeals-death-sentence.htm Sun, 18 May 2008 09:11:50 EDT