61.   The executive, Alfred Sirven, was being tried in absentia as part of a multimillion-dollar corruption case against Roland Dumas, a former French foreign minister.

62.   The corruption case was more than a reckoning with the former president and his cronies for enriching themselves at public expense.

63.   The first of the many corruption cases against Montesinos is likely to reach the courts soon.

64.   The GAL scandal and a spate of other corruption cases are likely to take center stage now that the European summit is finished.

65.   The indictment ranks among the most far-reaching public corruption cases in Missouri history.

66.   The government has shown a pattern in recent corruption cases of arresting suspects and then releasing them.

67.   The mayor rose to prominence as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, prosecuting high-profile municipal corruption cases.

68.   The operation, one of the largest roundups in a police corruption case, netted two sons of former police chiefs.

69.   The police corruption cases have occurred as crime has risen, apparently fueled by a decade of economic decline, in a society with traditionally low crime rates.

70.   The revelation of several high-level corruption cases has caused tensions within the government.