LAW & REGULATION
2 Former S&L; Officers Get Prison Terms: A federal judge in Topeka, Kan., sentenced two former officers of a collapsed savings and loan to prison and ordered them to pay regulators $14 million. James R. Cruce, 43, former president of Peoples Heritage Federal Savings & Loan Assn. of Salina, Kan., was sentenced to 14 years and ordered to pay $8 million to the federal Resolution Trust Corp. Thomas A. Burger, 43, of Rancho Mirage, Calif., the former chief lending officer, was sentenced to 12 years and ordered to pay $6 million.
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