11.   Just days before the massacre, the British official was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

12.   Prominent security officials have been convicted and more face trial.

13.   Some French health officials were later convicted of allowing the blood to be used even though they knew it might not be free of the AIDS virus.

14.   That special prosecutor, Donald Smaltz, persuaded a jury to convict the official Radek sought to protect.

15.   The former Soviet KGB official was convicted of persecuting dozens of people, nine of whom were condemned to death.

16.   The official was ultimately convicted, but some officials in the department privately questioned whether the prosecution of such a small-time offense justified the federal prosecutorial effort.

17.   Three other officials were also convicted of bribery.

18.   Two other Poughkeepsie officials were recently convicted of bribery and extortion as part of the federal and state investigation.

19.   A former U.S. loan official was convicted Wednesday of trying to arrange the killing of a witness in a New York bank fraud trial.