41.   He pleaded guilty to bank fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy charges, and admitted circumventing individual limits on donations.

42.   He pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy charges and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators.

43.   His lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said the acquittal on the conspiracy charge would protect his client from any new prosecution stemming from the torture in the bathroom.

44.   Hoffenberg had been free on bail since April, when he pleaded guilty to federal fraud and conspiracy charges.

45.   His attorney expects the felony conspiracy charge to be dismissed.

46.   If the conspiracy was ongoing, as prosecutors argue, then the conspiracy charge could rightly be heard in Puerto Rico.

47.   In addition, Ferber seeks to dismiss a conspiracy charge on the grounds that it violates the double-jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment.

48.   In addition to the drug conspiracy charge, Shehee also is charged with nine counts of money laundering and another drug charge.

49.   In interviews later, law professors said the lack of consultation reflected a confidence that the Justice Department thought it could convict Moussaoui on conspiracy charges.

50.   In return, Sayegh agreed to plead guilty to a one-count conspiracy charge in an unrelated plot that had also been directed against Americans in Saudi Arabia.