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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/us/nationalspecial3/12sentence.html
American Gets Prison for Lying About Hamas
[New York Times] Libby Sander - Muhammad Salah, 54, a onetime grocer from suburban Chicago who was convicted of lying in a civil lawsuit about his ties to the militant Palestinian organization Hamas, was sentenced on Wednesday in Federal District Court to 21 months in prison. Salah was convicted of obstruction of justice for lying about his involvement with Hamas in a civil case brought by the family of an American teenager, David Boim, who was shot and killed in Israel by Hamas militants in 1996. Judge Amy J. St. Eve said, "It is important to promote respect for the law....You cannot lie in a courtroom." She also imposed a $25,000 fine, 100 hours of community service, and three years of probation.