81.   Families of the firefighters present a united front, supporting the plea agreement.

82.   Federal prosecutors made Combs pay for underground testing on the four lots that were seized as part of his plea agreement.

83.   Finally, behind the pending criminal counts against Gravano there looms an old plea agreement from the Gotti case.

84.   First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Johns would not say Wednesday if a plea agreement was offered by prosecutors, and he declined further comment.

85.   Flaherty said his choice was to strike a plea bargain agreement or continue a long and expensive legal battle.

86.   Flaherty is said to be resisting any plea agreement that would endanger his hold on his office, or his state pension.

87.   Finkel also said the plea agreement that was made with Robert Dean, the former Montgomery County prosecutor, called for no jail time.

88.   For that reason, as well as for more self-interested ones, he said he hoped a plea agreement would mean a light sentence.

89.   For a woman who had faced up to life in prison, the plea agreement reduced the charges and left her visibly relieved.

90.   For months, prosecutors Jay Holtmeier and Ira M. Feinberg and Ms. Bayless could not agree on the terms of a plea agreement.