1.   Both Dai-Ichi Kangyo and Nomura have been connected to a scandal involving alleged payoffs to sokaiya, or extortionists who threaten to disrupt annual shareholder meetings.

2.   All those indicted either resigned from Yamaichi in August to take responsibility for the alleged payoffs to a racketeer or had already retired from the brokerage.

3.   He pointed to the current trial of former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards over alleged payoffs for casino licenses.

4.   In addition, Edwards is an unindicted co-conspirator in an alleged payoff involving a New Orleans garbage contract.

5.   Nomura Securities Co. and two of its former executives were indicted on additional charges for alleged payoffs to corporate racketeers.

6.   Prosecutors have already indicted Nomura and ten executives from Nomura and Yamaichi Securities Co. in connection with the alleged payoffs.

7.   The charges are related to alleged payoffs by businessmen S.K. Jain, N.K. Jain, B.R. Jain and J.K. Jain, all of the same family.

8.   The secretary for Turpin, vice president of human resources, testified today that her boss was in a meeting at company headquarters when the alleged payoff occurred.

9.   Tokyo district prosecutors have charged Nomura Securities Co. and Yamaichi Securities Co. with offenses related to alleged payoffs to Ryuichi Koike, a corporate racketeer.

10.   Yamaichi is the third large Japanese financial company to force its top board members to resign en masse because of alleged payoffs to Ryuichi Koike, an admitted racketeer.