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: Legal Pad | LAPrison time for Greens in entertainment industry FCPA case
By Richard Binder
U.S. District Judge George Wu has sentenced film producer Gerald Green and his wife Patricia to six months in prison and six months home confinement each for paying $1.8 million in bribes to a high-ranking government official in Thailand in exchange for more than $13.5 million in contracts to manage the Bangkok International Film Festival.
Federal prosecutors were seeking 10 years in prison each, while lawyers for the couple asked for five years' probation, including some period of house arrest. But Wu, who had postponed sentencing in the case for several months, said he was concerned that Gerald Green, 78, who suffers from emphysema, would face "adverse consequences to his health" if given a lengthy prison sentence.
This is the first criminal case involving Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges against individuals in the entertainment industry.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).
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