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- THE WEEK, Page 23SOCIETYEt Cetera
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- CRIME OF GREED
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- "What you have done is thoroughly evil," pronounced U.S.
- District Judge Garrett Brown as he sentenced Arthur D. Seale to
- the maximum: 95 years in prison, without parole. Seale, 45, an
- ex-Exxon employee, kidnapped senior Exxon official Sidney Reso
- in his own driveway and stuffed him, bound and bleeding, into a
- storage locker while negotiating his ransom. The entombed Reso
- slowly died an agonizing death. Seale and his wife Irene were
- tracked down by investigators. It was she who divulged the
- damning details of the kidnapping, and is now in prison, soon to
- face her own sentencing.
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- CRIME OF PASSION
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- "You have become a media celebrity," noted New York Supreme
- Court Justice Marvin Goodman as he passed sentence on Long
- Island teenager Amy Fisher. His honor understated the facts:
- since Fisher shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the head last May, the
- crime has drawn international attention. Prior to sentencing,
- Fisher again insisted that Mary Jo's husband Joey Buttafuoco
- was her lover and implied that he knew she intended to kill his
- wife. (The Buttafuocos deny all.) Result: five to 15 years
- imprisonment for the troubled teen for shooting Mary Jo,
- sentencing her to a life of pain.
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