Coughlin Loses Bid to Prevent Sentencing: Report
Tom Coughlin, the former Wal-Mart executive who pled guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges related to the improper spending of company funds, may spend time in federal prison after all.
November 2, 2007
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Tom Coughlin, the former Wal-Mart executive who pled guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges related to the improper spending of company funds, may spend time in federal prison after all. A federal appeals court denied Coughlin’s bid to overturn an earlier court determination that a home-sentencing was too light a punishment, according to the Associated Press. Coughlin was previously sentenced to 27 months home confinement by a U.S. District Court judge after Coughlin’s lawyers argued that their client had health problems that wouldn’t receive adequate care in prison.
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