In a separate prosecution, Mr Simm was ordered to pay 20m Estonian kroons ($1.7m) for the cost of new security systems.
In a separate prosecution last month, a hedge fund trader, Mark Lenowitz, became the seventh person to admit guilt in a case against employees at UBS, Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns.
If violent crimes against them resulted in acquittals before all-white state juries, federal prosecutors could bring a separate prosecution under federal civil rights law.
A separate prosecution effort by the British, who were keeping dozens of Ottoman officers locked up in Malta, similarly came to nothing, and eventually the officers were sent home as part of a prisoner-of-war exchange.
In a separate tax prosecution, the authorities in California arrested George H. Jesson, left, and his wife, Trina, on tax evasion charges.
In a separate criminal prosecution for mail fraud, House recently was sentenced to eight years in the big house.
Costa and his principal partner in crime, black marketeer Alberto Youssef, signed plea-bargain agreements in August and became government witnesses in 10 separate prosecution cases.
Originally, each region was in a separate indictment, but the prosecution pressed to have them joined.
In a separate development, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that eight people would face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking.
In a separate development, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that it would release details of the advice it gave to police in the late 1990s which enabled Cyril Smith to escape prosecution.
Sources say Alphonse Trucchio took over his father's crew after Ronnie One Arm was convicted of racketeering charges in two separate prosecutions in Florida and sentenced to life in prison three years ago.
