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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas: Calling prosecutors' request for a lengthy prison term a death sentence, a federal judge sentenced former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker to four years probation for his May 28 conviction on Whitewater fraud and conspiracy charges. U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. said prison "would be as cruel as the grave" for the ailing defendant. Tucker faced 10 years in prison but had appealed for leniency, citing his public humiliation and a chronic liver condition. Tucker was the first of the three Whitewater defendants to be sentenced. Susan McDougal will be sentenced Tuesday, but after cooperating with...
...parents and took refuge at friends' homes. But Hall idolized his maternal grandfather, Charles Keating Jr., a one-time NCAA swimming champion with whom he would shoot prairie dogs on the family compound. When Keating, former chairman of Lincoln Savings & Loan, was indicted in 1990 and convicted of fraud and racketeering, Hall was devastated. "He was one person who had confidence in me," he says. "It was traumatizing--more painful than losing someone to death." Soon the teen was blowing up mailboxes and carving up the green of a golf course--and he landed briefly in a juvenile detention hall...
Stripping the Guerre story of its suspense, composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyricist Alain Boublil establish from the start that the new, improved Martin is a fraud--and a godsend to the virgin wife Bertrande. That's fine; we want to know why she connives in the deception. But the plot is hoked up with religious pieties (Huguenots are the new Bosnians) and a psycho villain desperate to take any Martin's place in Bertrande's bed. It's Romeo and Juliet without the poetry, or an Oklahoma! that...
...Gennadi Zyuganov accused Russian Public Television of illegally censoring a political advertisement. While Zyuganov's campaign manager Valentin Kuptsov charged that omitting the five-minute advertisement was a serious breach of law, spokesmen for the TV channel said the ad was scrapped because it contained "unproven allegations" about election fraud and wasn't paid for. The Central Election Commission is expected to investigate the matter. But TIME's Sally Donnelly says it would come as no suprise if the TV station indeed omitted the ad as a last-minute political boost for Yeltsin, given the utter lack of balanced coverage...
...business. Last fall Symington declared personal bankruptcy. In March a grand jury looking into his personal finances indicted two associates for bid rigging on state contracts. Capping an exhaustive five-year federal probe, that same grand jury has indicted the Governor on 23 counts, including making false statements, wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud and attempted extortion...