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Published on September 19, 2007 at 8:52am
Her voice started to break. "I have been like a Florence Nightingale or a Mother Teresa. And I am asking you for mercy."
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Despite her supplication, Yvonne Howell was ordered to serve ten years and one month in prison and pay $9.8 million in restitution.
Kaiser was furious. Howell had not profited exorbitantly, he said, but her sentence was more than twice as long as Bernard's or Althea's. Only after Howell's sentencing did Kaiser learn from a New Times reporter that Sherri Issa had won half a million dollars in her qui tam action. Had he known that during trial, he may have been able to discredit Issa — "my most damning witness" — on the stand.
Two weeks ago, he filed a motion for a new trial.
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