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Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92 Correction Appended. Alger Hiss, the erudite diplomat and Harvard-trained government lawyer who was convicted of perjury in an espionage case that became one of the great riddles of the Cold War, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He was 92 and lived in Manhattan.
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Sealed Indictments At the retrial, Vigil was convicted of a single count of the 24-count indictment. He was convicted of attempted extortion and received a three-year sentence to federal prison. The blogging world and Republican operatives seem to want to make a great deal about the fact that the courthouse indictments remain sealed. They seem to ignore the context that there is an ongoing criminal investigation.
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Enemy Of The People There hasn’t been a treason trial in America since 1952, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Tomoya Kawakita, a dual U.S.-Japanese citizen who was born in California, could be convicted of treason for mistreating American prisoners of war in Japan.
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Felons in Elected Office Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted on seven felony counts of corruption in late October. Stevens ran for reelection Nov. 4 against Democrat Mark Begich, and the two are awaiting the official results, as votes are still being counted. Begich’s lead increased to about 1,000 votes on Nov. 15, however.
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Margarete Himmler In September 1945, Margarete Himmler was again interrogated, but this time it was during the Nuremberg Trials. Margarete and Gudrun were then detained at the Flak-Kaserne Ludwigsburg internment camp. Since they were not accused, she and Gudrun were released in November 1946 from internment.
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- (1890-1963). American criminal Robert Stroud was a convicted murderer who spent 54 years in prison, 42 of them in solitary confinement. During his incarceration he became a self-taught ornithologist (his nickname was Birdman of Alcatraz), and he made notable contributions to the study of birds.
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Alger Hiss After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Alger Hiss petitioned General Dmitry Antonovich Volkogonov, who had become President Yeltsin's military advisor and the overseer of all the Soviet intelligence archives, to request the release of any Soviet files on the Hiss case.
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Alger Hiss The case heightened public concern about Soviet espionage penetration of the U.S. government in the 1930s and 1940s. As a well-educated and highly connected government official from an old American family, Alger Hiss did not fit the profile of a typical spy.
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Ex-D.C. drug kingpin who rebuilt life pleads guilty to $1.3M tax evasion Ex-D.C. drug kingpin who rebuilt life pleads guilty to $1.3M tax evasion Cornell Jones (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) By Spencer S. Hsu By Spencer S. Hsu Email the author January 19, 2016 Email the author A D.C. drug kingpin who served nine years in federal prison in a drug case and also ran up $16 million in unpaid taxes as of 1986 pleaded guilty to new tax-evasion charges­ Tuesday in federal court in Washington.
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Alger Hiss (1904-96). Alger Hiss, the former United States diplomat who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union throughout World War II and the postwar restoration, was convicted of perjury in 1950 for having denied he passed Department of State secrets to a Communist courier.
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- Up to 10% for submitting high priority measures: Organizations that include high priority measures in the measures they choose to submit can receive a bonus of 1-2 points per measure total up to 10% of the total denominator of the Quality score, e.g. 10% of 60 = 6 max bonus points in the example above.
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Sedition Others such as Louis Beam and Richard Butler were charged for their speech seen as spurring on the overt acts by the others. In April 1988, a federal jury in Arkansas acquitted all the accused of charges of seditious conspiracy.
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Rosenberg sons acknowledge their father, Julius Rosenberg, was a spy The about-face came after their father's co-defendant, Morton Sobell, admitted for the first time that he and Julius Rosenberg stole nonatomic military and industrial secrets for the Soviet Union. The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953 for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
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- A federal jury found Martha Stewart guilty of all four counts related to her obstruction of a government investigation into her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock in late 2001, giving the government a big win in its pursuit of white-collar crime.
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Maryland Briefing Lawyer Is Convicted of Fabricating Asylum Files. A Silver Spring lawyer was convicted in federal court yesterday on charges of fabricating asylum applications for immigrants trying to stay in the United States.
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10 Celebrities Convicted of Tax Evasion 1. Martha Stewart: She may be a home and garden guru, but she's also a convicted tax evader. Before doing jail time for insider trading, Stewart was forced to pay $220,000 in back taxes and penalties to the State of New York, learning the hard way that East Hampton mansions also generate taxes. Her claim that she hardly spent time there didn't reduce her burden, or appease the state of New York.
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Capone goes to prison Publisher. A+E Networks. On this day in 1931, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and 1930s.Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1899 to Italian immigrants.mong Capone’s enemies was federal agent Elliot Ness, who led a team of officers known as “The Untouchables” because they couldn’t be corrupted. Ness and his men routinely broke up Capone’s bootlegging businesses, but it was tax-evasion charges that finally stuck and landed Capone in prison in 1931.
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Espionage Act Espionage Act. The Espionage Act was passed by Congress in 1917 after the United States entered the First World War. It prescribed a $10,000 fine and 20 years' imprisonment for interfering with the recruiting of troops or the disclosure of information dealing with national defence.
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On This Day: Muhammad Ali Convicted of Draft Evasion Two months later, a Houston jury took only 20 minutes to convict Ali—still called Cassius Clay in court—of draft evasion. He was given a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine. He would also be stripped of his passport and his heavyweight title, and was banned from fighting in the United States.
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The hollywood ten pro communist jews were arrested for spying, accused for leaking atomic bomb information. soon executed, first americans to be executed for espionage during cold war. McCarran act made it against the law to be communist in america or to be part of a communist party in america
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Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip to be executed after final appeal fails Execution set: Richard Glossip lost his final appeal. A man on death row for 17 years is to be executed by lethal injection after his final appeal failed . Richard Glossip, 52, says he didn’t murder motel boss Barry Van Treese in 1997. Sir Richard Branson and actress Susan Sarandon have called for him to be freed. Glossip will be killed in McAlester, Oklahoma.
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- Julius Rosenberg1 THIS YEAR marks 50 years since the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on June 19, 1953a murder committed by the U.S. government in the name of national security and the Cold War fight against communism. The official crime for which they were tried was conspiracy to commit espionage.
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The Trotsky Assassination Trotsky may have been out of Stalin’s sight, but he was never out of his mind. As the outspoken exile continued to castigate his foe, Trotsky was found guilty of treason by a show court and condemned to death. On the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, a group of 20 gunmen stormed Trotsky’s walled compound to carry out the sentence.
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- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) were American communists who were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war.
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Us Political and Social History On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former U.S. Communist Party member, testified under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that Hiss had secretly been a Communist, though not a spy, while in federal service. Called before HUAC, Hiss categorically denied the charge.
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Espionage Act of 1917 The Espionage Act, passed in June 1917, provided penalties of 20 years imprisonment and fines up to $10,000 for those convicted of interfering with military recruitment. The law also authorized the Postmaster General to remove treasonable or seditious material from the mail.he Espionage Act, passed in June 1917, provided penalties of 20 years imprisonment and fines up to $10,000 for those convicted of interfering with military recruitment. The law also authorized the Postmaster General to remove treasonable or seditious material from the mail.