The question of a presidential pardon arose after recent statements by Robert W. Ray, the independent counsel, who said he had hired additional prosecutors and was considering whether to indict Mr. Clinton after he leaves office.
In an innovation, the trial made room for about 90 "civil parties," who registered to apply for reparations and were represented in court by lawyers who acted as additional prosecutors.
The budget calls for financing increases for more agents to be hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to look into mortgage fraud and white-collar crime as well as for additional prosecutors and bankruptcy experts at the Justice Department to deal with growing problems arising from the financial crisis.
Mr. Scruggs prepared documentation to hide the nature of the additional $10,000 payment, prosecutors said.
A former investment banking analyst has been sentenced to 1 ½ to 4 ½ years in state prison for stealing more than $572,000 from state tax authorities and attempting to steal an additional $4.6 million, prosecutors said yesterday.
A Manhattan man charged two months ago with stealing thousands of dollars from five businessmen by accepting money for electronic equipment that he never delivered has been rearrested and charged with defrauding nine additional people, prosecutors said.
With the arrest of Mr. Acevedo, attention turned to what additional charges prosecutors may seek — if any — beyond a likely felony charge of fleeing the scene of an accident that resulted in death.
The unit, which had about half a dozen assistant United States attorneys in 2009, now has 10; an additional 4 prosecutors work in a satellite office in White Plains, handling mostly political corruption cases, Mr. Zabel said.
Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was already out on bail facing two counts of federal wire fraud this winter when he began orchestrating a scheme to defraud the victims of his earlier scams of an additional $100,000, prosecutors say.
While Franklin was not charged with those additional slayings, prosecutors in the penalty phase were permitted to present testimony about five such cases, including two in which no bodies were ever found.
