- 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, anNBC affiliate inProvidence, Rhode Island , refused to reveal who leaked a surveillance tape to him. He was convicted of criminal contempt of court onNovember 18 2004 , and sentenced onDecember 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]
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