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Show VIOLATOR GETS FINE, BUT MAKES MONEY We see by the newspapers that a man in New York, convicted of violating liquor price ceilings, has been sentenced to serve eighteen months in prison and fined $56,000 Off hand, this looks like a heavy hea-vy sentence, but the government charged that the defendant collected col-lected $661,755 in over-charges from distributing companies. Aside from the stigma of imprisonment, im-prisonment, a little calculation shows that the brother will net more than $1,000 a day for the time he serves in jail. |