Sentence examples for convicted crook from inspiring English sources

Those brave council members — one of whom, sad to say, is a convicted crook on his way to jail — didn't blink.

And it has nothing to do with her gender identity -- it has to do with her being a convicted crook.

Jared Kushner, Scheming Son-In-Law: His father, a convicted real estate crook, bought him a ticket to Harvard with a $2.5 million donation and persistent, nagging calls to beholden politicians.

His family's bank made loans to Tony Rezko, a property developer with links to Mr Obama who was later convicted, as well as to two other crooks.

I also learned that this Cesar, along with three of the other four crooks named in the indictment, had been convicted and sent to prison.

He describes Bernie Madoff, the US financier convicted in 2009 of defrauding investors of $65bn, as a "complete crook who took people's money", and defends his own actions by claiming 95 per cent of his business dealings "were totally legit".

Understandably, Novak won't say whether he's involved with any of the cases making headlines lately, but he does expect that this current crop of corporate crooks will land some pretty stiff sentences if convicted.

Crook was acquitted of two charges of murder but was convicted of the alternative counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

The 36-year-old, known for his blogs denouncing President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party as crooks, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

Elected crooks such as Jonathan Aitken, a perjurious Tory minister, have been convicted in the past.

Just before Paul Foot died he came into the office cheering "I've got the bastard!" about some property crook he'd first exposed in 1969 but who wasn't finally convicted until five or six years ago.