A federal judge insisted yesterday that a former pharmaceutical company employee serve a prison sentence for perjury, despite her lawyer's contention that other notable public figures, including former Massachusetts House speaker Thomas M. Finneran and a onetime key aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, avoided prison after committing similar offenses.
US District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. said it would foster cynicism in the judicial system and encourage more perjury if he allowed Joanne Richardson, 42, of Tyngsborough to avoid a prison sentence for lying to a grand jury investigating alleged fraud by TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc.
O'Toole, who took on the case after another judge tossed out Richardson's original sentence, ordered her to serve five months in prison, followed by five months of house arrest. He also ordered her to pay a $3,000 fine, as in her original sentence, which included six months in prison, followed by four months of house arrest.
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US District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. said it would foster cynicism in the judicial system and encourage more perjury if he allowed Joanne Richardson, 42, of Tyngsborough to avoid a prison sentence for lying to a grand jury investigating alleged fraud by TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc.
O'Toole, who took on the case after another judge tossed out Richardson's original sentence, ordered her to serve five months in prison, followed by five months of house arrest. He also ordered her to pay a $3,000 fine, as in her original sentence, which included six months in prison, followed by four months of house arrest.
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