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Former Alstom executive Hoskins must serve corruption sentence despite Covid, US judge says

By Richard Vanderford ( February 24, 2021, 22:28 GMT | Insight) -- Former Alstom executive Lawrence Hoskins must serve his prison sentence for corruption-related offenses, a US judge said, rejecting his arguments that a lengthy and lonely pre-incarceration stint away from his wife in the UK justifies compassionate release. "Given the impact of the pandemic on the global community, Mr. Hoskins’s isolated and lonely existence is far from unique and is not the functional equivalent of incarceration," a judge said.Former Alstom executive Lawrence Hoskins must serve his prison sentence for corruption-related offenses, a US judge said, rejecting his arguments that a lengthy and lonely pre-incarceration stint away from his wife in the UK justifies compassionate release....

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