Quebec accountant convicted of defrauding nuns gets house arrest
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QUEBEC (CP) - A 68-year-old accountant convicted of taking part in a scheme to defraud Roman Catholic nuns of &#36;100 million was sentenced Friday to two years' house arrest.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Alain Richard, a former vice-president of a controversial Quebec ad agency implicated in the sponsorship scandal, has been arrested for breaking his bail conditions, city police said.
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EDMONTON (CP) - A banker who stole nearly &#36;16 million from the Bank of Montreal and blew much of it on prostitutes and fast cars has suffered intense public humiliation, his lawyer told a sentencing hearing Thursday.
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A U.S. woman jailed in Brazil since December in a sex abuse case involving minors has been placed under house arrest because of poor health, her lawyers and authorities said Thursday.
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A laid-off funeral home worker was arrested for allegedly arranging phony funerals that included carrying caskets in a sport utility vehicle and having his girlfriend act as a priest.
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E. Kirk Shelton is to be confined at home while he appeals his convictions in a $3 billion accounting scandal at the travel and real estate company.
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A New Jersey painter was arrested Thursday on charges he pulled off what prosecutors say is the biggest fraud yet from a Sept. 11 compensation fund &#151; more than $1 million.
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The judge who sent Paris Hilton to jail called a hearing for Friday on why the hotel heiress was released early and placed under house arrest in a move swiftly challenged by prosecutors and local politicians.
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Philippine immigration agents arrested a Briton wanted for fraud, theft and attempted murder in Canada and the United States, the immigration bureau said.
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A self-professed guru of offshore tax havens was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service after prosecutors urged a
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PARIS, Jan 26 -- The French trader accused of one of the biggest bank frauds ever surfaced Saturday -- in the custody of police, who were questioning him about bad bets that cost France's No. 2 bank billions of euros.
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A sobbing Paris Hilton was ordered back to jail on Friday as a judge overruled a sheriff's decision to place the hotel heiress under house arrest for psychological problems after she spent three days behind bars.
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Ronald Isley has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for tax evasion.
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Full-time house arrest is about to end for the founder of Parmalat, the Italian dairy giant driven into bankruptcy in a fraud scandal, his lawyer said Saturday.
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A Romanian priest who caused the death of a nun during an exorcism ritual is jailed for 14 years.
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A Roman Catholic priest who is accused of beating, groping and choking a soloist at his Las Vegas church was arrested Thursday in Arizona, authorities said.
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Police have taken into custody the trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale, a judicial source said on Saturday.