Morteza Amiri was convicted of federal charges in two cases, a college degree scam and a use-of-force incident.

Federal prosecutors this week asked Senior U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White to sentence Amiri to at least eight years in prison after back-to-back convictions over the last year for his role in a ...

Crane was released from prison on Jan. 17. She returned to the U.S. the same day as President Donald Trump's second inauguration. Crane said her German colleagues, or "comrades," as she refers to ...

In court documents filed on June 9, prosecutors asked the judge to sentence them to 151 months — about 12 and a half years — in prison. In the federal trial, Bean and Smith were found guilty ...

An attorney for one of the defendants said it was the epitome of a two-tiered justice system that the Chinese parent company ...

Christian Grostic successfully argued that judges should focus on rehabilitation rather than original convictions when ...

Although former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was expected to pay a $2. 5 million fine quickly, his time in prison ...

"In summary, the epidemic of public corruption in Illinois and the substantial need for deterrence weigh in favor of a 12.5-year sentence in this case," the court filing read in part.

But his bid for no incarceration was rejected by U.S. District Judge Nelson Roman, who agreed with the prosecution that the seriousness of the crime and the need for deterrence made a prison term ...

SINGAPORE, June 18 — A private tutor was sentenced to four years and nine months in jail yesterday for committing obscene ...