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The four Blackwater guards — Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, and Dustin Heard — were convicted in 2014 after fourteen killings of Iraqi civilians, including 9- and 11-year-old boys, were deemed unjustified. https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/justice/blackwater-iraq-guilty-verdicts/index.html
The four Blackwater guards — Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, and Dustin Heard — were convicted in 2014 after fourteen killings of Iraqi civilians, including 9- and 11-year-old boys, were deemed unjustified. https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/justice/blackwater-iraq-guilty-verdicts/index.html
Former Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter was sentenced to 11 months in prison and three years of parole for corruption charges stemming from his misuse of more than $200,000 in campaign funds for a slew of personal expenses. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/duncan-hunter-sentencing/index.html
The two border patrol agents -- Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean -- were convicted in 2006 of shooting & wounding, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, an unarmed undocumented immigrant, & then covering it up.
Aldrete-Davila was shot fleeing toward the Rio Grande.
https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/17/border.pardons/
Aldrete-Davila was shot fleeing toward the Rio Grande.
https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/17/border.pardons/
Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch lawyer, was sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to lying to Mueller investigators. He was the first person to serve jail time for a charge brought by the Mueller investigation. He was also deported. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/alex-van-der-zwaan-deported/index.html
Former New York Rep. Chris Collins, the first sitting congressman to support President Trump's bid for the White House was sentenced to 26 months in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges in an insider trading case. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/politics/collins-sentencing/index.html
