When President Harry S. Truman commuted the mail fraud sentence of former Boston mayor James Michael Curley, he was condemned for helping a fellow Democratic politician.
This spring he was convicted of securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
The Nakais were one of 20 couples defrauded by Ms. Furlow, who in September was convicted of three counts of mail fraud and sentenced to 46 months in prison for collecting $215,000 in a three-year period from hopeful couples.
Duke pleaded guilty in December to tax and mail fraud; the sentence was the same one agreed to in his plea bargain.
Kaeppeler's father, Jeff Kaeppeler, told the AP he served 18 months in federal prison for mail fraud, a sentence his daughter said started as she was graduating high school and entering college.
Alpha executives, who pleaded guilty to money laundering and mail fraud, are awaiting sentencing in Tennessee.
Edward Seung Ok, 44, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and was sentenced to 15 years in prison and Vladimir Stefanovic, 38, was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Cooper pleaded guilty to mail fraud and was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $73.1 million in restitution.
But if a conviction for mail fraud and a six-month sentence did not deter Maryland's top-grossing lobbyist, Bruce C. Bereano, two years ago, neither did Mr. Bereano's activities totally discourage Mr. Kelberman.
In a separate criminal prosecution for mail fraud, House recently was sentenced to eight years in the big house.
In 1989 he was convicted of 5 of 24 charges of wire and mail fraud and conspiracy and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
