Sentence examples for convicted of forging from inspiring English sources

Morrissey was convicted of forging Astor's signature on her will.

He was convicted of forging aides' names on letters that claimed they had received the money.

In the late 1990s, when Mr. Ewell was convicted of forging a check, prosecutors did not pursue a life sentence.

Mr. Carmack previously was convicted of forging postal mail orders, a lawyer involved in the case said.

The second-place finisher, Ayman Nour, a lawyer, was later convicted of forging signatures on his application to create a political party, and was sentenced to five years in prison; many viewed his punishment as politically motivated.

Although prosecutors said there was no physical evidence connecting Ms. DeJac to her daughter's murder, they relied on the testimony of a man convicted of forging checks, who said she confessed to the killing in a bar several months later.

It seemed that Rizvan Rahman's career in the art world was over forever after he was convicted of selling forged paintings and served five months of an 18-month prison sentence.

When he and his wife were finally convicted of laundering and forging documents, the Belgian court made clear this was not linked to any 'terrorist' organisation or to diamonds.

Mr. Nour was convicted in 2005 of forging signatures on petitions he had filed to create his party.

In the past, people convicted of these crimes — which include forging invoices to avoid taxes and smuggling cultural relics out of the country — rarely received the death penalty.

The anti-Semitic campaign against Alfred Dreyfus, the French military officer convicted of treason in 1894 on forged documents, was largely driven by a fanatical band of Catholics denouncing Dreyfus for his perfidious Jewishness.