21.   Interviews with convicted drug smugglers and other witnesses from United States court cases were sometimes slow to be granted, sometimes postponed and sometimes refused.

22.   Investors are waiting for the outcome of a Congressional debate on asset forfeiture and extradition legislation for convicted drug criminals.

23.   Judges have no discretion over whether a convicted drug offender should be imprisoned, and they cannot take into account whether any violence was committed.

24.   No drugs were found, but one of the occupants was a convicted drug smuggler.

25.   One convicted teen-age drug dealer just out of Rikers said that he fought with a teacher and started dealing again when he started school near his Brooklyn housing project.

26.   Other employees are convicted drug dealers, prison records show.

27.   Several top city officials drive vehicles that were forfeited by convicted drug dealers.

28.   The revisions would have dismissed the crime unless the payoff money could be proved to come from convicted drug dealers.

29.   Turner and Pappas were described by law enforcement officials as having ties to Carmello Merlino, a convicted drug dealer and armed robber.

30.   Others showed convicted drug offenders smoking a last cigarette before execution.