1.   Both sets of parents say they paid fees to an adoption broker in California in exchange for promises that they could adopt the girls.

2.   He suggested that they take their complaint to the Web adoption broker, Caring Heart Adoption.

3.   In the last few days, Johnson has taken her Web site down from the Internet, according to another adoption broker in California who knows her.

4.   Poverty-stricken mothers are often tricked or coerced into selling newborn infants who are later adopted by Americans who pay large fees to Cambodian and American adoption brokers.

5.   A California couple say they tried to adopt the girls through an Internet adoption broker but lost them to a British couple who paid more.

6.   Both couples acknowledged paying thousands of dollars to an Internet service run by adoption broker Tina Johnson.

7.   The decision by the government of Prime Minister Adrian Nastase came after pressure from the U.S. government, international adoption brokers and would-be parents.

8.   The decision by the government of Prime Minister Adrian Nastase came after pressure from the U.S. government, international adoption brokers, and would-be parents.

9.   The defendants include former officials of the Long Xuyen nurturing center for orphans and the elderly, the provincial Justice Department, the provincial hospital and adoption brokers.

10.   Two sets of parents, one in California and one in Wales, adopted the girls last year through an Internet adoption broker.