Sentence examples for major convictions from inspiring English sources

It filed 58 such actions last year and secured major convictions, including that of a former Goldman board member, Rajat Gupta.

The major convictions after 2000 followed an initial dry spell for the tribunal which, founded in 1993, spent years with a low caseload, inadequate budget and no power to compel the delivery of suspects or witnesses.

To date, the only major convictions with severe penalties from the era have arguably been Bernie Ebbers and Scott Sullivan of WorldCom; Cendant's Kirk Shelton (convicted but still free pending his appeal); the Rigas of Adelphia Communications; and of course Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz of Tyco International (convicted in a second retrial but out on bail pending an appeal).

The decision represented another setback for independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, whose five-year investigation of the foreign policy scandal has seen reversals of the only two major convictions he obtained based on trials.

His first major conviction was in 1959, when he was convicted of heroin trafficking.

The sharply worded rebuke by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco upends the first major conviction of a corporate executive in a backdating case.

TBILISI, Georgia — In the first major conviction to result from a string of prosecutions of former high-level officials in the Georgian government, a judge on Monday found a former head of the country's prison system guilty of abuse of power in connection with the deaths of seven inmates in a prison riot.

The national election now enables Mr Vucic, who is probably at the peak of his popularity, to get his hands on all levers of government and the economy.Mr Vucic has led a high profile anti-corruption campaign, which has led to trials, though no major conviction yet.

Screeners are supposed to be legal residents of the United States and are not supposed to have major criminal convictions, but security companies sometimes have not verified the status or records of those they have hired.

Now, not only did the family business lose its latest court battle, but it lost to a man with two major drug convictions who had been forced to disgorge $50 million in drug profits.

To be eligible, inmates must have already been behind bars for at least 10 years, have a nonviolent history, have no major criminal convictions, have a good behavior record in prison, and be serving a sentence that, if imposed today, would be substantially shorter than what they were given at the time.