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Prison time less
for white-collar
crime, report says
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More
than 80 percent of convicted white-
collar criminals are sentenced by
judges to little or no time behind
bars, the federal government re
ported Sunday.
In a study of forgery, counterfeit
ing, fraud and embezzlement in
eight states containing more than a
third of the nation’s population, the
government found that 60 percent
of the people convicted of white-col
lar crimes were sentenced to prison
terms.
However, the report by the Bu
reau of Justice Statistics said only 18
percent of those convicted were sent
to prison for more than 12 months.
More than 40 percent of those
convicted were given sentences of
less than one year and the study did
not measure the amount of time the
prisoners actually served. Actual
prison time generally is shorter than
the sentence imposed because of fac
tors such as sentence reduction due
to good behavior.
In contrast, violent offenders re
ceived prison terms of more than a
year 39 percent of the time, the
study found. Property crime offend
ers received prison terms of longer
than 12 months in 26 percent of the
cases.
Forty percent of convicted white-
collar criminals were given proba-
Despite significant differences in
sentencing, “the criminal justice
agencies in the jurisdictions studied
do not appear to have treated the
28,012 white-collar crimes differ
ently than they did other types of
crime,” said Steven R. Schlesinger,
director of the Bureau of Justice Sta
tistics.
The study tracked the disposition
of nearly half a million state felony
arrests in 1983, but did not cover
white-collar crimes involving federal
laws such as price-fixing, which sel
dom result in prison time for those
convicted. The Bureau of Justice
Statistics is preparing a separate re
port on federal white-collar crime.
According to the state study, 88
percent of those arrested for white-
collar felonies were prosecuted,
compared with 82 percent for vio
lent crimes, 86 percent for property
crimes and 81 percent for public or
der crimes such as disorderly con
duct and drug and gun offenses.
White-collar criminals tended to
be older and more of them tended to
be women, the survey found.
Mexican president
offers spending plan
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President
Miguel de la Madrid proposed a
spending plan for 1987 designed to
restart the stalled economy and re
duce inflation to well below the re
cord pace projected for this year.
The budget blueprint, released
late Saturday, calls for spending
next year of 86.2 trillion pesos, or
roughly $103 billion, nearly 60 per
cent above the government’s original
1986 budget.
The Mexican economy was dealt a
sharp blow earlier in the year by the
plunge in international oil prices.
With declining crude revenue, the
government was forced to work out
a $ 12 billion rescue package with the
international financial community.
The fresh loans will boost the na
tion’s foreign debt to $103 billion by
year’s end, the second highest in the
developing world after Brazil.
But de la Madrid said the eco
nomic strategy outlined in the new
spending guide will permit the econ
omy to grow an average of 2 percent
to 3 percent next year, with an ex
pansion of 3 percent to 4 percent at
the start of 1988.
“The economic activity is now
touching bottom, so a stabilization in
the production level can be forecast
at the start of next year and, later, a
gradual recuperation,” he said.
The economy is expected to con
tract at an inflation-adjusted rate of
about 4 percent this year. It grew 2.7
percent in 1985.
The president said his administra-
-
tion will work to pare further the
number of non-strategic, non-prior
ity companies it owns.
“The public sector will withdraw
totally from the areas whose encour
agement does not require its pres
ence,” he said.
The spending plan did not give a
breakdown of how much money will
go for different areas of the govern
ment.
Economic woes
in Mexico hurt
Houston sales
The budget plan projects next
year’s inflation rate will be 20 to 30
percentage points off this year’s
pace, which is expected to surpass
100 percent.
De la Madrid also said the govern
ment plans a hefty increase in
spending on public works projects to
boost the number of jobs available.
Interest rates, he said, will fall
sharply next year and more credit
will be available. The budget deficit
will be reduced, he said.
HOUSTON (AP) — Mexico’s eco
nomic crisis is taking its toll on some
local businesses that once catered to
the Mexican buyer’s needs.
During the last four years, those
Houston businesses have learned to
depend less on the Mexican traveler
and turn their attention to American
shoppers.
For Mahmud Yusuf, the effects
hit home one day back in September
1983 when Mexican banks were na
tionalized. He was in Rome on a
business trip for Copperfield, an ex
clusive men’s clothing store he owns
in the Galleria.
At the time, the store depended
on Mexican customers for 80 per
cent of its business. When Yusuf
heard the news, he called his store to
see if business had been affected.
“They said it was like someone
had stopped the flow,” he said.
Yusuf and other Houston mer
chants still speak fondly of the days
before the drastic peso devaluation
when Mexican tourists flowed into
the city and spent freely.
He also said the government will
continue to modernize its trading
sector to encourage greater sales of
non-oil goods to foreign buyers.
Such sales, he said, should increase
about 15 percent next year. They
have surged more than 25 percent
so far this year, according to the doc
ument.
Oil revenues, on the other hand,
will be off $8.2 billion this year. The
government earned $13.3 billion in
crude exports last year.
Tonie Nolan, the Galleria’s mar
keting director, said the Mexican
business “was almost a luxury. You
needed to do some some selling, but
it was easy business.”
The Galleria, with shops, hotels
and entertainment under one roof,
was a particular draw.
By mid-1983, the Mexican busi
ness at the Westin Oaks and Westin
Galleria hotels had plunged to al
most nothing, said Dick Barton,
marketing director for both hotels.
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tion or other non-prison penalties,
the survey concluded.
Criminals committing property
crimes such as burglary or car theft
were given probation or other non
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