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Ex-utility employee gets prison for California fraud scheme
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former Pacific Gas & Electric employee was sentenced Monday to nearly two years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme to secure PG&E contracts for his cousin's business, federal prosecutors said. Ronald S. Schoenfeld, 65, was also ordered to pay nearly $1.5...
Ex-VA doctor sentenced to 25 years over molesting patients
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former doctor at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to federal charges that he molested three male patients and violated their civil rights. U.S. District Judge Frank Volk sentenced Jonathan Yates, 52,...
Woman sentenced in scheme to offer information to Russia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman who once served in the Air Force was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison Monday for planning to offer top-secret information from the National Security Agency to the Russian government. Elizabeth Jo Shirley, 47, pleaded guilty last year as part...
Ex-Fish and Wildlife employee gets jail for fuel theft
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A former employee of the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife who stole tens of thousands of dollars of fuel was sentenced to three months in jail and must pay nearly $57,000 in restitution. Bob Woodard had worked for the department for about 25 years and was an IT...
Former KC fire captain sentenced for illegal drugs
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former fire department captain in Kansas City, Missouri, has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for illegally selling guns, including to convicted felons. James Samuels, 55, was sentenced Monday. He will be required to serve three years of supervised released once he...
US Supreme Court won't hear rabbi's appeal of $22M case
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Connecticut rabbi's appeal of a $21.7 million jury verdict in a lawsuit that accused him of sexually abusing a teenage boy. The court provided no comments in its decision to let stand a federal appeals court ruling last year that...
Navy SEAL gets 10 years for his role in Green Beret's death
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Navy SEAL has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the hazing death of a U.S. Army Green Beret while the men served together in Africa. The SEAL's attorney said he plans to appeal the punishment. Tony DeDolph received the sentence Saturday from a jury of fellow...
Ex-officer gets 6 years on child pornography conviction
BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts police officer was sentenced Monday to six years in prison on child pornography charges, federal prosecutors said. Paul Hodson, 44, a former New Bedford officer, was also sentenced to five years of probation. The Acushnet resident pleaded guilty in December 2019 to...
Ex-VA doctor who misdiagnosed patient sentenced to prison
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A former pathologist at an Arkansas veterans hospital has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient he misdiagnosed. Robert Morris Levy, 54, of Fayetteville was sentenced Friday in federal...
Samsung scion Lee won't appeal prison sentence for bribery
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong and prosecutors have decided not to appeal a court ruling that convicted him for bribing South Korea’s former president for business favors, confirming a prison term of two and a half years for the country’s most influential corporate...
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