1.   The officials were alleged to have poured what the prosecutor described as unimaginable amounts of government money into a private business enterprise called Art-B.

2.   Anthony Spero, whom prosecutors described as the former acting boss of the Bonanno family, is also one of the defendants in the trial.

3.   Anthony Morelli, described by prosecutors as a Gambino family representative, has been convicted on related charges.

4.   As loans came due, they paid them off with fresh loans, in what prosecutors described as an international Ponzi scheme.

5.   At his bail hearing, the prosecutor described him as dangerous.

6.   At the news conference, prosecutors described two schemes that they say operated at the Dyckman Center.

7.   Ali Mohamed, meanwhile, has been described by prosecutors as a high-level logistics adviser to bin Laden.

8.   But he said that the peddlers in Chicago did not appear to be subject to the sort of coercion that prosecutors have described in the New York case.

9.   But prosecutor Toby Shook described Rodriguez as a coldblooded killer who helped plan an elaborate robbery.

10.   But prosecutors described Pugach as a rejected suitor who began harassing the woman after she ended their affair.