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- <text id=90TT2766>
- <title>
- Oct. 22, 1990: Business Notes:Crime
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 22, 1990 The New Jazz Age
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 56
- Business Notes
- CRIME
- Milken on Trial, Sort Of
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When junk-bond king Michael Milken copped a plea last April,
- he disappointed everyone who had been hoping to see the
- white-collar trial of the decade. Now Milken is having his day
- in court, but it will be a quick one. In an unusual proceeding
- that began last week, federal Judge Kimba Wood will hear
- evidence about some of the 92 charges Milken did not admit when
- he pleaded guilty to six felony counts of securities fraud and
- other crimes. Prosecutors hope to offset the efforts of
- Milken's lawyers to cite his philanthropic activities as grounds
- for a lenient sentence. Milken, 44, could be given anything
- from community service to 28 years in prison.
- </p>
- <p> The hearing has drawn flak from legal scholars and civil
- libertarians, who charge that the evidence and testimony will
- not be subjected to the same scrutiny as they would in a trial.
- The special hearings are expected to end this week, with Wood
- sentencing Milken soon afterward.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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