Justice is very strange in NY, and that's putting it mildly.
Hmm, I was a year off, sorry !
Did a quick search, apparently sentencing was to be March this year bit it's postponed as she is having radiation treatment for breast cancer. Sentencing now in late September 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Stewart
(Of course, here in DFW a local fraudster got released from prison due to cancer - a cancer that then mysteriously vanished.)