Chris Dolmetsch Bloomberg

The judge said the sentence was intended to discourage others from similar crimes and to protect the public from Mr Qin, who had no trouble lying to his investors.

Akshay Aiyer had asked the judge to sentence him to a term of probation with a period of home confinement.

A bail hearing by Zoom for the 17-year-old accused of hacking some of the world's highest-profile Twitter accounts last month offered some surprises when a lawyer revealed that the teenager was already under investigation last year -- and then the session was interrupted by participants showing porn.

Harvey Weinstein, once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, will likely spend the next several years in an 8-by-10-foot cell in upstate New York.

And so does Martin Armstrong, a self-taught economist with a cult following who spent years behind bars for what the U.S. said was a $700 million Ponzi scheme and for allegedly hiding assets, including what may be those very same coins.

Craig Carton, once the co-host on the highest-rated morning-radio sports-talk show in the New York area was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for fleecing investors who gave him and his cohorts millions of dollars to buy and resell tickets to prominent concerts, musicals and sporting events.

Good thing she's fearless, with all these ticked-off humans around.

Donald Trump's personal driver for more than 25 years says the billionaire real estate developer didn't pay him overtime and raised his salary only twice in 15 years, clawing back the second raise by cutting off his health benefits.

"The line to protect the public should not be drawn by two companies who make smartphones."

The judge said the sentence was intended to discourage others from similar crimes and to protect the public from Mr Qin, who had no trouble lying to his investors.

Akshay Aiyer had asked the judge to sentence him to a term of probation with a period of home confinement.

A bail hearing by Zoom for the 17-year-old accused of hacking some of the world's highest-profile Twitter accounts last month offered some surprises when a lawyer revealed that the teenager was already under investigation last year -- and then the session was interrupted by participants showing porn.

Harvey Weinstein, once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, will likely spend the next several years in an 8-by-10-foot cell in upstate New York.

And so does Martin Armstrong, a self-taught economist with a cult following who spent years behind bars for what the U.S. said was a $700 million Ponzi scheme and for allegedly hiding assets, including what may be those very same coins.

Craig Carton, once the co-host on the highest-rated morning-radio sports-talk show in the New York area was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for fleecing investors who gave him and his cohorts millions of dollars to buy and resell tickets to prominent concerts, musicals and sporting events.

Good thing she's fearless, with all these ticked-off humans around.

Donald Trump's personal driver for more than 25 years says the billionaire real estate developer didn't pay him overtime and raised his salary only twice in 15 years, clawing back the second raise by cutting off his health benefits.

"The line to protect the public should not be drawn by two companies who make smartphones."