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...last month after driving while intoxicated and showering the police officers who apprehended him with anti-Semitic epithets-for which he has since apologized; to three years of probation, $1,600 in fines and one year in a 12-step program for alcoholism; after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor count of drunk driving; in Malibu, California...
...last month after driving while intoxicated and showering the police officers who apprehended him with anti-Semitic epithets--for which he has since apologized; to three years of probation, $1,600 in fines and one year in a 12-step program for alcoholism; after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor count of drunk driving; in Malibu, Calif...
...when the subcontractors are indicted, the larger companies rarely come under fire and when they do, the charges are small and the fines low. A manager for ABX Air, Inc., an independent company that transports air cargo nationwide from its base in Ohio, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of hiring illegal workers in the Garcia case and agreed to a $10,000 fine. In 2003, Wal-Mart was raided by immigration agents who arrested 250 unauthorized immigrants on cleaning crews at 61 stores in 21 states. None of those arrested were Wal-Mart employees but rather employees of cleaning...
PLEADED GUILTY. Claude Allen, 45, former Bush White House domestic-policy adviser, in a plea agreement, to one misdemeanor count of theft for defrauding Target stores by stealing items and then attempting to get refunds for them; in Rockville, Md. Allen last week ascribed his behavior to job stress and sleep deprivation in dealing with the fallout from Hurricane Katrina...
...enrollment) for recipients of federal financial aid, such standards must be fair, sensible, and consistent. There exists no plausible reason for drug crimes to be singled out for special punishment; revocation of aid should depend on the seriousness of the crime rather than the type. As it stands, a misdemeanor drug offense could make a student ineligible for aid, while a student convicted of felony assault would still technically qualify. The denial of educational opportunity carries such serious ramifications for a person’s future that the threshold for ineligibility should be both high—a felony conviction...