71.   The U.S. attorney in Newark, Faith Hochberg, and her deputy in charge of corruption cases, Larry Stephen, have refused to comment on James.

72.   The three-term mayor admitted that federal officials are looking into whether he is involved in a possible corruption case in Atlanta and Fulton County.

73.   There also have been successful criminal political corruption cases brought by prosecutors in San Diego, San Bernardino, Sacramento and Ventura counties.

74.   This has no direct effect on the corruption case in which Espy was acquitted on all charges.

75.   This involves a charge that Balladur authorized and Pasqua carried out illegal phone-tapping in a corruption case touching some Gaullist politicians.

76.   This spring, newspapers and television programs were given mild encouragement to report on egregious corruption cases.

77.   Those articles charted the seven-year rise in corruption cases among Customs and Immigration and Naturalization Service personnel.

78.   Thompson said the law needed to be changed to provide stiffer sentences in such internal corruption cases.

79.   Those prosecutors fear that any broad privilege would make it more difficult to conduct investigations and bring cases, particularly public corruption cases involving government officials.

80.   Trager was especially vigorous in pursuing corruption cases against politicians, notably Joseph Margiotta, the Republican leader in Nassau County.