Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner who rose to national prominence, was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to eight felony charges, including tax fraud and lying to White House officials. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/nyregion/19kerik.html
Michael R. Milken, the once-powerful financier who came to symbolize a decade of excess, was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for violating Federal securities laws and committing other crimes. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/22/business/the-milken-sentence-milken-gets-10-years-for-wall-st-crimes.html
Former Rep Duncan D. Hunter of California was sentenced to federal prison for funneling more than $150,000 from his campaign coffers to pay for a lavish lifestyle including vacations, private school tuition and even airline travel fees for pet rabbits. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/duncan-hunter-sentencing.html
Four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards were convicted and immediately jailed Wednesday for their roles in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad’s Nisour Square that marked a bloody nadir in America’s war in Iraq. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/us/blackwater-verdict.html
A federal district judge sentenced a Philip Esformes to 20 years in prison today after being found guilty in the largest health care fraud scheme, a decades-long scheme of kickbacks and money laundering in connection with fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid
2007: Conrad M. Black, the gregarious press tycoon also known as Lord Black of Crossharbour, was found guilty today by a Chicago jury of three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/business/13cnd-black.html
2015: Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr.and his son, Steven Dwight Hammond, sentenced to five years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken for arsons they committed on federal lands. 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/eastern-oregon-ranchers-convicted-arson-resentenced-five-years-prison
2018: The Army has charged a Special Forces soldier with premeditated murder in a shooting that happened nearly nine years ago in southern Afghanistan, according to military documents obtained by The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2GhGVro 
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