"The Cosby Show," starring future convicted sexual predator Bill Cosby, premiered on NBC in September 1984.
Until the south wing could be renovated, he promised to send future convicts from nearby counties to Sing Sing Prison instead.
We also know that he has since his campaign surrounded himself with future convicts (e.g. Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Cohen) and empowered advisers who were ethically compromised (e.g. Scott Pruitt, Tom Price, Brock Long, Ryan Zinke) and incompetent (e.g. his children).
An infamous White House memorandum written by Egil Bud Kroghgh (the future Watergate convict, likably played by Colin Hanks) reports that Nixon repeatedly warned Presley of the need "to retain his credibility" and bizarrely "indicated that he was aware of how difficult it is to perform in Las Vegas", deliciously off-kilter details that the film sidesteps in favour of more slapstick silliness.
Are these cases laying down a marker for the future by convicting old men for behaviour once commonplace (most of the claims against Travis were for groping)?
Prisoners who sit behind steel doors in cinder-block cells for months or even years can lose hope of a future – especially convicted felons, who know that their prospects of economic dignity upon release are almost non-existent.
The Football Association may change its rules after admitting it is powerless to intervene in the future of convicted rapist Ched Evans.
It would set up a method for reducing or denying state pensions for future public officials convicted of crimes related to their public offices.
The agreement would force legislators, many of whom have part-time law practices, to disclose the names of clients who have business before the state; would allow prosecutors to seek to strip pensions from future elected officials convicted of felonies; and would for the first time allow officials appointed by a governor a role in overseeing legislative compliance with ethics laws.
The subject was the future of the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds on account of his terminal illness, in the face of huge criticism from the US and others.
