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...midst of developing legislation to regulate what can be said on the Internet. Last Wednesday a House-Senate conference committee agreed on the content of a new bill which would impose tough prohibitions against transmitting obscenity and "indecent" material over computer networks. The bill would include fines and prison terms for people who make "indecent" material available to minors. "Indecent" material is a step removed from explicitly sexual and pornographic material, and covers four letter words and sexual material deemed "patently offensive" by local community standards. (For those of you hissing "Newt" between clenched teeth, be reassured; he actually opposes...
JOEY BUTTAFUOCO, fresh out of a second prison stint after violating his parole, is working on a new kind of sentence. According to the New York Daily News, the Long Island mechanic whose teenage girlfriend shot his wife is trying to parlay his notoriety into a publishing deal for his debut literary effort, Joey Buttafuoco's How to Avoid Car Rip-Offs. "The world is full of scammers," he says, "but that's not how the Buttafuocos do business...
GUILTY PLEA ENTERED. By NICHOLAS LEESON, 28, former futures trader whose billion dollar losses brought down Barings investment bank; to fraud and forgery with the intention to commit fraud; in Singapore. The sentence: 6 1/2 years in prison: a Singaporean prison...
...called Nhommarath and announced that the men were scattered there in small groups. "They've been brainwashed to forget they are Americans," she said. The CIA men smiled and paid her $80. A reconnaissance team was already headed to Nhommarath, where satellite photos had shown there might be a prison camp. The agents were just looking for reassurance. No POWs were ever found...
...through schemes like pledging company assets as collateral for loans that he pocketed. When he later ran into severe cash-flow problems, Cheek ransacked $254,000 from the 401(k) accounts in a last-ditch effort to cover his losses. Convicted last March, he is serving a nine-year prison term for fraud and embezzlement...