Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson issued a call for the Government to review the prisoner release scheme.
Well I certainly think that the release scheme which now was virtually history, it's almost complete, has not been the way to proceed.
On Sunday, a Conservative Party MP Andrew Hunter said the early release scheme was "fundamentally flawed" and had been badly handled by the government.
The early release scheme has been one of the most criticised aspects of the peace accord which paved the way for the establishment of a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland.
The judge added that it was not for him to take into account the early release scheme under the Good Friday agreement and he sentenced Rodgers to serve at least 16 years in prison.
Some soldiers did benefit from the Good Friday Agreement early release scheme, but ironically they were the so called "bad apples" who carried out crimes on behalf of either the UVF or the UFF, so therefore came under the aegis of the 1998 Northern Ireland Offences Act.
Much of the commentary has focussed on the treatment of former paramilitaries who have been able to benefit from the two-year early release scheme provided under the Good Friday Agreement, and the contrasting fate which awaits any former soldiers or police officers facing charges for crimes committed before 1998.
In a press release, Picard claims UBS actively assisted the Madoff Ponzi scheme by sponsoring and administrating Luxalpha SICAV and Groupement Financier, two feeder funds.
Mr. Estes again went to prison after being convicted of tax charges in 1979 but returned to wheeling and dealing on his release a few years later with a never-realized scheme to grow wine grapes in West Texas.
The complaint also alleges that in addition to covering up the fraud scheme, CAIR forced angry clients who were demanding a return of their legal fees to sign a release that bought the client-victims' silence by prohibiting them from informing law enforcement or the media about the fraud.
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