11.   But DeGuerin said his client essentially has been set up by a convicted drug smuggler, who likely will be the main prosecution witness.

12.   But Weld himself has done nothing to require convicted drug offenders on probation to submit to regular drug screening.

13.   Even so, he said that the White House is tightening procedures after revelations that a Chinese arms merchant and a convicted drug criminal have attended such sessions.

14.   Future financing, Ms. Poritz said, could come from a state fund created with money and property confiscated from convicted drug dealers and other criminals.

15.   Hahn has pressed Villaraigosa about a letter, also mentioned in the ad, that he wrote to the White House on behalf of a convicted drug trafficker.

16.   He was being tried in connection with his relationship with longtime friend and two-time convicted drug dealer Rickey Brownlee.

17.   His father is a convicted drug dealer.

18.   However, the defense made much of the fact that Richardson, a convicted drug dealer, was testifying in exchange for a lesser federal prison sentence.

19.   In December the Colombian Congress passed an asset-forfeiture law to take wealth away from convicted drug dealers.

20.   Instead of focusing on forfeiture reform, supporters in Massachusetts are stumping for the need to treat drug abuse and make convicted drug dealers pay for it.