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News Corp. hired for mer AOL chief Jonathan Miller to oversee its digi tal media businesses, in cluding the MySpace so cial-networking Web site. Miller, who ran AOL from 2002 to 2006, will report to Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch, the company (which owns The Post) said yes terday.

KPMG

A lawyer and two for mer KPMG executives were sentenced yesterday in what the government once touted as the biggest tax fraud case ever. US District Judge Lewis Kap lan sentenced former KPMG executive John Larson to 121 months in prison. A fellow execu tive, Robert Pfaff, re ceived 97 months. Lawyer Raymond Ruble was sen tenced to 78 months.

Beton jail

Ex-Betonsports CEO David Carruthers pleaded guilty in an illegal-gam bling case filed by the US Justice Department and could be sentenced to up to 33 months.

FIG left

Fortress Investment Group, a private-equity and hedge-fund manager, claims it lost $125.7 mil lion buying phony promissory notes from Marc Dreier, the lawyer charged in a $700 million Ponzi scheme.

House money

Fannie Mae received the $15.2 billion invest ment that it requested from the US Treasury as part of financing agreed to in September. Freddie Mac also said that the Treasury fulfilled that company’s request for $30.8 billion in aid, bring ing its total payout from the fund to $44.6 billion.

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