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Plaxico Burress Gets Two Years in the Clink

Filed under: Talk Sports Former NY Giants star Plaxico Burress was just sentenced to two years in federal prison for illegal possession of a weapon.Plax accidentally shot himself in the leg in a NYC nightclub back in November 2008. The gun was unlicensed and no one initially … Permalink

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Michael Vick Reinstated By NFL

A window of opportunity for Michael Vick to return to the NFL is open. Whether any team is willing to employ Michael Vick is another matter. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reinstated the disgraced dogfighting star on Monday, following his recent release from prison for running a dogfighting ring

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Michael Vick Reinstated By NFL

Government Web site says Madoff at prison in Ga. (AP via Yahoo! News)

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was being held in a federal prison in Atlanta Tuesday after his transfer from a New York lockup, according to a Bureau of Prisons Web site.

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Madoff leaves Atlanta lockup, headed to NC prison (AP via Yahoo! News)

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff left a federal prison in Atlanta on Tuesday to start serving an 150-year sentence behind bars in North Carolina.

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Madoff enters N.C. federal prison to begin 150-year sentence

Bernard Madoff, the disgraced financier blamed for what is believed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history, arrived Tuesday at a federal prison in North Carolina to begin a 150-year sentence in a cell with two bunk beds, a toilet and a sink.

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Nigerian rebels take ‘oil war’ into Lagos (AFP)

AFP – Nigerian rebels took their ‘oil war’ with the government into Lagos, killing at least five people in their first ever attack on Africa’s biggest city on the eve of the release of their leader from jail.

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Historic US Supreme Court pick Sotomayor faces critics (AFP)

AFP – Judge Sonia Sotomayor, fighting to become the first Hispanic US Supreme Court justice, assured senators questioning her impartiality Monday that her “fidelity to the law” trumped her personal views.

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U.S. judge gives fraud lawyer 20 years in prison (Reuters)

Reuters – Marc Dreier, a high-profile New York lawyer who admitted to a $400 million investment fund fraud that unraveled at the same time as Bernard Madoff’s huge swindle, was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on Monday.

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Madoff on way to federal prison: U.S. official (Reuters)

Reuters – Admitted thief Bernard Madoff was moved from his New York jail cell on Monday and was traveling to federal prison, a U.S. prison official said.

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