Editing Mark Whitacre (section)

===Sentencing and release===
Whitacre pled guilty to tax evasion and fraud and was sent to prison on March 4, 1998.<ref name="DOJ"/> Although some officials in the FBI and the Department of Justice opposed the length of the penalty, Whitacre was sentenced to nine years in Federal prison.<ref name="Mokhiber">{{Citation|last1=Mokhiber |first1=Russell|last2=Weissman|first2=Robert|title=Rats in the Grain|date=August 8, 2000|newspaper=[[Common Dreams NewsCenter]] |url=http://www.commondreams.org/views/080800-101.htm|access-date=September 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901044939/http://www.commondreams.org/views/080800-101.htm|archive-date=September 1, 2009|url-status=dead}}<br/>{{cite web |work=AlterNet |first1=Russell |last1=Mokhiber |first2=Robert |last2=Weissman |title=CORPORATE FOCUS: Winking at Corporate Fraud |date=August 8, 2000 |url=http://www.alternet.org/story/9583/|access-date=August 17, 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214093921/http://www.alternet.org/story/9583/|archive-date=February 14, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Krebs|first=A.V.|title=Must reading|date=August 16, 2000 |url=http://www.populist.com/00.16.krebs.html|journal=[[The Progressive Populist]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208113158/http://www.populist.com/00.16.krebs.html|publisher=Ampersand Publishing Co.|archive-date=February 8, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In December 2006, he was released on good behavior after serving eight and a half years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://moneyinc.com/what-is-former-whistleblower-mark-whitacre-up-to-today/ |title=What is Former Whistleblower Mark Whitacre Up to Today?|last=Parker|first=Garrett|date=May 29, 2019|website=Money Inc|language=en-US|access-date=March 10, 2020}}</ref>