11.   The agency has been under court order to follow up on allegations that Rao was personally involved in several multimillion-dollar bribery schemes.

12.   That name turned out to be a fictitious identity Calvi used in unrelated bribery schemes.

13.   The authorities said the bribery scheme was organized by Edward Garafola, who, according to the indictment, was a member of the Gambino crime organization.

14.   The governor, a Republican, has not been implicated in the inquiry and has denied any knowledge of the bribery scheme.

15.   They say he was drawn into a bribery scheme by a system that forces honest business people to pay off government officials to win government contracts.

16.   Those witnesses can testify about the bribery scheme, the cover-up and other allegations in the settlement, she said.

17.   Federal prosecutors have portrayed Players executives as the victims of extortion rather than participants in a bribery scheme, although some former executives testified under grants of immunity.