11.   After losing to Koch, Gardini went back to Italy where he faced potential government bribery charges.

12.   After winning acquittal on bribery charges brought by independent counsel Donald Smaltz, Espy vowed to be the leadoff witness in Congress against extending the law as written.

13.   Bribery charges against an Orthodox rabbi in Lakewood, N.J., and two other men were dismissed Thursday by a judge in New Jersey Superior Court.

14.   Bribery charges also caused the resignation of NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes, a former Belgian defense minister, and of Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus.

15.   City manager Cesar Odio and lobbyist Jorge de Cardenas were indicted last month on separate bribery charges.

16.   Congressman Walter Tucker screamed racism when he was indicted on bribery charges.

17.   Despite the onus of pressing a bribery charge in relation to a campaign contribution, such cases are not unknown.

18.   Even Berlusconi, now on trial for bribery charges and facing an indictment in a more serious corruption case, has dropped his repeated calls for new elections.

19.   Foreman is on the prosecution witness list in the federal trial of the IBF on bribery charges, but Lewis is not.

20.   Fuentes has contended the Mexican bribery charges against him are political vengeance.