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Bernard Madoff - sentencing - Wall Street
Madoff: payback time (Part 2)
Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison after defrauding investors out of billions of dollars. Does this mark the end of the Madoff Affair, despite the gaps in the tale? And what are the broader implications for Wall Street?
Bernard Madoff - sentencing - Wall Street
Madoff: payback time
Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison after defrauding investors out of billions of dollars. Does this mark the end of the Madoff Affair, despite the gaps in the tale? And what are the broader implications for Wall Street?
AUSTRIA
Fritzl’s hometown struggles to carry on
The town of Amstetten, where Josef Fritzl lived, is sick of the attention paid to its most infamous inhabitant. FRANCE 24's Willy Bracciano and Angela Yeoh sent us this report, which includes an exclusive pre-trial interview with Fritzl's lawyer.
AUSTRIA
Sorry, there’s no ‘Fritzl Schnitzel’ on the menu
A restaurant manager in the Austrian town where the Josef Fritzl trial was held thought he was just making the most of the moment when he added a “Fritzl Schnitzel” on the menu. But local authorities were not impressed.
AUSTRIA
Fritzl found guilty of murder, given life imprisonment
A day after pleading guilty on all counts, Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a prison psychiatric ward for charges including incest, enslavement and murder by neglect. He and his lawyers will not appeal the sentence.
AUSTRIA
Prosecutor calls for 'maximum sentence' for Fritzl
A day after pleading guilty on all counts, Josef Fritzl faces sentencing Thursday on charges including incest and murder by neglect. The man who fathered seven children with his daughter is expected to be jailed for the rest of his life.
ITALY
Berlusconi's former lawyer sentenced for giving false evidence
A court in Milan has sentenced David Mills, the British former tax lawyer of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi (pictured), to four and a half years in prison for giving false evidence. Mills maintains his innocence and says the judgment is political.
RUSSIA - JUSTICE
Life sentence for Russian tycoon
Leonid Nevzlin, a former partner of the Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was sentenced to life in prison for ordering the killings of four rivals and officials during the "Wild East" capitalism of the 1990s.
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Britain's Simon Mann sentenced to 34 years for coup plot
A court in Equatorial Guinea's capital Malabo sentenced Simon Mann, a British mercenary, to 34 years in prison for his failed coup attempt to overthrow the West African country's government.
JAPAN - CRIME
Yakuza boss sentenced to death
The rare sentence was passed by a Japanese court for the shooting of Nagasaki's mayor last April. The assassination caused Japan, a country with one of the world's lowest crime rates, to stiffen its gun laws.
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