NEW YORK : Leona Helmsley Taken Off Probation
Leona Helmsley’s remaining nine months of probation for tax evasion were waived by a federal judge who agreed the hotel queen had paid her debt to society. U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa signed the order in New York after receiving a two-page letter from Helmsley’s lawyer arguing that the probation, due to end next April, should be cut short because of “her advancing age and own uneven health” and because she had satisfied the terms of probation. Helmsley, 76, was convicted in 1989 of tax evasion and served 18 months in prison.
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