Ringleader of $50 million theft from DC tax office sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison

October 6th, 2009 Calif. sisters get 6 years in prison for tax fraudRIVERSIDE, Calif. — Two Southern California sisters have been sentenced to six years in federal prison and ordered to pay $14 million in restitution for their role in defrauding the IRS.

September 30th, 2009 Ex-Democratic fundraiser sentenced to 24 yearsNEW YORK — Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison Tuesday by a judge who accused him of funding his fraud with a "conniving use of the political process." U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero sentenced Hsu to 20 years in prison for his guilty plea to fraud charges and another four years and four months in prison for his conviction at trial for breaking campaign finance laws.

September 22nd, 2009 Ex-cop sentenced in $60K theft, fleeing to VegasHUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A former Alabama police officer has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing from his department, faking his abduction and fleeing to Las Vegas.

September 14th, 2009 Airline bomb plot ringleader gets 40 years in UKLONDON — A British judge on Monday sentenced the ringleader of a plot to bring down trans-Atlantic planes with liquid explosives to at least 40 years in jail and three fellow British Muslims to long prison sentences. The sentences for the planned suicide bombings were among the longest ever handed out by a British court in a terrorism case.

August 30th, 2009 Former Pa. state senator headed to prison MondayPHILADELPHIA — A former Pennsylvania state senator convicted on fraud charges is scheduled to report to federal prison in Kentucky on Monday. Sixty-six-year-old Vincent Fumo has been sentenced to 4½ years in prison for defrauding the Senate and two nonprofits of several million dollars.

August 20th, 2009 Calif. man avoids jail in $2 million almond theftSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The last defendant in a $2 million almond theft ring in California's Central Valley has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor that will let him avoid jail time.

August 19th, 2009 Calif. man gets 2 more years for posing as lawyerSANTA ANA, Calif. — A Southern California man sent to prison for seven years for falsely claiming to be an attorney has been sentenced to two more years for posing as a lawyer again days after he was released.

August 7th, 2009 Tenn. man sentenced in bank bailout fraud caseNASHVILLE, Tenn. — The first person to be charged with fraud under the federal bank bailout has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

July 6th, 2009 Woman gets prison for Library of Congress ID theftWASHINGTON — A woman who worked with her cousin to steal the identities of 13 unsuspecting Library of Congress employees was sentenced Monday to two and a half years in prison. Labiska Gibbs admitted that in spring 2008 she asked her second cousin William Sinclair Jr., who worked in the library's human resource department, to get her the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of library workers from the payroll database.

June 24th, 2009 Canadian man gets 7 1/2 years on smuggling chargesDETROIT — A Canadian man who tried to drive nearly 200 pounds of the drug Ecstasy, worth an estimated $6.5 million, into the United States has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison. A federal judge in Detroit sentenced Joseph Bennett of Scarborough, Ontario, on Wednesday.

June 23rd, 2009 Man who aired Hezbollah TV shows sentenced in NYCNEW YORK — A man who helped the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah by broadcasting its television programs in New York City has been sentenced to more than a year in prison. Saleh Elahwal (soh-LAY' ee-loh-WAH') was sentenced Tuesday to a year and five months by Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman.

May 14th, 2009 Man convicted in scheme to buy, sell body partsLOS ANGELES — A man has been convicted in a lucrative scheme to buy and sell human body parts donated to a University of California medical school. A jury found Ernest Nelson of Rancho Cucamonga guilty of conspiracy to commit grand theft, grand theft by embezzlement and tax evasion.

May 9th, 2009 Man gets more prison time in transgender slayingDENVER — A man convicted last month of murder and a hate crime in the slaying of a transgender Colorado woman has received another 60 years in prison after being found a "habitual criminal." Allen Andrade of Thornton was convicted of beating 18-year-old Angie Zapata to death with a fire extinguisher July 17 after discovering she was biologically male. A judge sentenced him to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder after the jury's April 22 verdict.

April 22nd, 2009 Prosecutor: UCLA body part scheme netted $1.5MLOS ANGELES — Prosecutors say a man made about $1.5 million from a conspiracy with a school official to resell human body parts donated to the University of California medical school. Deputy District Attorney Marisa Zarate said during opening statements Wednesday that 51-year-old Ernest Nelson devised the scheme with former UCLA cadaver program director Henry Reid in 1999.

December 29th, 2008 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in a tizzy over the Rs.26 million (Rs.2.6 crore) that reportedly went missing on Christmas Day from its national headquarters. Though party workers were Tuesday furiously speculating about who could be the culprit, the spokesperson said accounts were being 'reconciled'.