NATION : Leona Rejects Plea Bargain
<i> From Times wire services</i>
NEW YORK —
Hotel queen Leona Helmsley, already sentenced to four years in a federal prison, rejected an offer for a concurrent sentence in her state tax fraud case today, insisting, “I’ve committed no crime. I’m not giving up.”
Sitting stiffly at the defense table in state Supreme Court, Helmsley listened silently as her lawyer, Gerald Feffer, turned down a plea bargain offered by the state attorney general’s office.
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