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A Glendale doctor who fraudulently billed more than $45 million in Botox injections to Medicare and used the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in federal prison.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Thomas Scott McEntee, who was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
In the novel, Myshkin does not present the harrowing experience as his own but as the firsthand account of an acquaintance who had been sentenced to death for a political offense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Banica was sentenced to three years and nine months and was also told upon release he would be deported.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The evidence confirmed his innocence and Mr. Hinton became the 152nd person in America exonerated and proved innocent after having been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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