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GEORGE RYAN News:
20071108
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George
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 Money
-  Politics
-  Illinois
-  Death
Penalty - "Ex-Gov.
Ryan of Illinois Reports to Prison." ... "Former
[Illinois Republican Governor] Gov. George Ryan, who drew international
attention for halting the death penalty in this state, reported to a federal
prison in Wisconsin on Wednesday to begin his six-and-a-half-year sentence
for racketeering and fraud." ... "Mr. Ryan, who in 40 years in public office
became one of the most powerful Republicans in the Midwest, was convicted
last year of a long list of corruption charges stemming from his tenure
as secretary of state and governor of Illinois, including using public
money for campaign work and exchanging state business for money and gifts,
among them an island vacation." -By Catrin Einhorn
-NYTimes
20060906
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Illinois
- Politics
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 Capital
Punishment - "Ex-Illinois
governor gets prison sentence." ... "Former Illinois
Gov. [Republican governor] George Ryan, promoted as a Nobel Peace Prize
candidate for his vigorous opposition to capital punishment, was sentenced
to 6-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for corrupt dealings while in office."
... "The 72-year-old Ryan, his voice cracking, told the court before sentencing:
"I realize ... the people of Illinois have lost faith in their government.
And for that I am very sorry. I let them down."" ... "On April 18, after
a nearly six-month trial, a jury convicted Ryan and friend and lobbyist
Larry Warner on 18 counts of racketeering, conspiracy, fraud and other
offenses involving favoritism and kickbacks for state contracts and property
leases that enriched Ryan and his friends." ... "Ryan's lawyers have already
appealed the verdict and asked for a new trial." (1, 2)
-By Andrew Stern -Reuters
20060417
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Illinois
- Politics
- "Ryan
convicted in corruption trial: Co-defendant Warner
also guilty." ... "[Republican] George Ryan Sr., a consummate political
dealmaker who rose to become Illinois' 39th governor, was convicted Monday
on sweeping federal corruption charges of wielding power to help himself
and his friends." ... "After a historic, marathon trial, a federal jury
in its 11th day of deliberations found Ryan guilty on all 18 counts of
steering state business to cronies for bribes, of gutting corruption-fighting
efforts to protect political fundraising and of misusing state resources
for political gain." ... "Ryan's co-defendant, lobbyist and longtime friend
Lawrence Warner, was also found guilty on all 12 counts against him." ...
"Reached later by telephone, Warner, who made more than $3 million on the
insider deals, said he was unprepared for the guilty verdicts." (1, 2)
-By Matt O’Connor and Rudolph Bush with contributions
by David Heinzmann -ChicagoTribune
20031217
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- "Ex-Ill.
Gov. Ryan Indicted on Corruption." ... "Former Gov.
George Ryan, who gained a worldwide reputation as a critic of the death
penalty, was indicted Wednesday on charges of taking payoffs in a corruption
scandal that shadowed his entire four years in office and cut short his
political career." ... "Prosecutors said the 69-year-old Republican and
his family took cash, gifts, vacations and other favors to steer state
business to friends and associates while he was governor and, before that,
Illinois secretary of state." -By Mike Robinson
-AP via-AJC
20030422
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- "California
should rethink executions, says former Illinois gov.."
... "California should consider halting executions while it takes "an in-depth
look" at whether it administers the death penalty fairly, former Illinois
Gov. George Ryan told state lawmakers Tuesday." ... "Repeated failures
in Illinois' system prompted Ryan to commute the sentences of all his state's
167 condemned inmates before he left office this year." ... "The public
seems to favor the death penalty, "but they want a system that's fair,
just and accurate," Ryan told the Senate Select Committee on the California
Correctional System. "If you're poor and minority, you haven't got a prayer.""
-By Don Thompson -AP
via -SFGate.com
20030203
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- "Illinois
ex-governor showed clemency to 643 prisoners." ...
"Including the 167 death sentences he commuted days before he left office,
the Republican granted 643 clemency requests during his four-year term,
almost twice as many as his predecessor granted in eight years." ... "Ryan's
unprecedented decision to wipe out every death sentence, reducing most
to life in prison, brought international attention to a state system where
17 people sent to death row had been cleared since capital punishment was
reinstated in 1977." -By Nicole Ziegler Dizon
-AP via -Boston/Globe
0030113
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- "Big
setback, and new ire, on death penalty." ... "Most
Americans still believe in the death penalty. But a rising number of them
are asking: Is it used fairly?" ... "The answer, increasingly, seems to
be no." ... "Academic reports have revealed persistent bias. Media outlets
have publicized cases of error-prone defense attorneys, as well as the
potential for new DNA and other evidence to overturn death sentences."
... "This weekend, in the most dramatic move of all, Illinois Gov. George
Ryan emptied out the state's entire death row by handing out reduced sentences
to all 156 inmates. That marks the largest commutation of such sentences
since the United States Supreme Court overturned the death penalty in 1972."
-By Laurent Belsie
-CSMonitor
20021014
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"Illinois
puts death penalty on trial." ... "Clemency hearings
are scheduled to begin this week for almost every prisoner facing the death
penalty in the US state of Illinois." ... "The cases of 142 murderers -
convicted of killing around 250 people - will be reviewed with the possibility
that the state's Governor George Ryan will commute all their sentences
to life in prison." ... "Governor Ryan, who leaves office in January, was
the first to declare a moratorium on executions three years ago after three
murder convictions were overturned with new examinations of DNA evidence."-BBC/News
20020907
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"Illinois
governor may commute death sentences." ... "Gov.
George Ryan is considering commuting every death row inmate's sentence
to life in prison...." ... "The governor suspended executions in January
2000 after a string of death row inmates were released."
-AP via -CNN
20020824
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"Ryan
making end run on death penalty: Veto could
set up vote in legislature." ... "Attempting to put death penalty reform
on the General Assembly's fall agenda, Gov. George Ryan Friday altered
a bill to include a provision that would prohibit capital punishment in
cases where conviction rests solely on a single eyewitness, accomplice
or jailhouse snitch." ... "The veto is the governor's latest attempt to
focus lawmakers' attention on an issue near to his heart. In the two years
since he declared a moratorium on executions in Illinois and appointed
a panel of experts to review the state's capital justice system, Ryan has
repeatedly urged the General Assembly to undertake serious reform." -By
Christi Parsons
-ChicagoTribune
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