Federal prosecutors have dropped their appeal of the sentence given to a Hollywood film producer and his wife in a high-profile Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case.

The Justice Department has agreed to stall attempts to extradite a former Thai government official and her daughter while they argue for dismissal of criminal charges tied to a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case against a Hollywood film producer and his wife.

A federal judge has sentenced a Beverly Hills, Calif., film producer and his wife to six months in prison and six months home confinement each in the first criminal case involving Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges against individuals in the entertainment industry. Patricia and Gerald Green were convicted of paying $1.8 million in bribes to a high-ranking government official in Thailand in exchange for more than $13.5 million in contracts to manage the Bangkok International Film Festival.

A federal judge has dismissed all charges against adult film producer John Stagliano, granting a defense motion for judgment of acquittal in the closely watched First Amendment case. Stagliano and two of his companies were charged with producing two movies and a trailer that federal prosecutors said were criminally obscene. “It’s a great day for the First Amendment

Tuesday marked the opening of the government’s obscenity case against adult film producer John Stagliano and two of his companies. The prosecution, the first obscenity case in Washington, D.C., in more than 20 years according to DOJ statistics, drew a crowd that included at least one adult movie director and one actress, Aurora Snow, who is writing about the case from a performer’s perspective. Jurors watched a 50-minute clip from “Jay Sin’s Milk Nymphos” on two flat-screen TVs