Jim Taricani

Jim Taricani

Jim Taricani is a US-based reporter, who served a sentence of six months of home confinement for refusing a court order to divulge a source.

Taricani, an investigative reporter for WJAR television, an NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island, refused to reveal who leaked a surveillance tape to him. He was convicted of criminal contempt of court on November 18 2004, and sentenced on December 9 2004 to six months of home confinement.

The tape was used during a municipal corruption probe of then-Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci, Jr known as Operation Plunder Dome.

External links

* [http://www.rcfp.org/news/2004/1209inresp.html Taricani ordered confined to home on criminal contempt charge]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6687959/ Reporter gets 6 months home confinement]
* [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000724169 Dodd Introduces Federal Shield Law]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Buddy Cianci — Infobox Mayor name = Vincent A. Cianci, Jr. width = order = 32nd 34th office = Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island birth date = birth date and age|1941|4|30 birth place = Cranston, Rhode Island residence = Providence, Rhode Island term start… …   Wikipedia

  • WJAR — Providence, Rhode Island/ New Bedford, Massachusetts Branding NBC 10 (general) NBC 10 News Slogan The T …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”