The Democratic senator from New Jersey who worked on behalf of labor and education before being convicted of bribery and conspiracy for promising to use his office to help a business venture in which he had a hidden interest was 81.
Georgi V. Azbarov, who was a captain in the Federal Security Service, the domestic successor agency to the K.G.B., before being convicted of trying to organize a murder for hire in 2003, said that the connection between low pay and brutality on the job should be obvious.
Waller worked as an aide to Ted Stevens, who served as a senator for forty years before being convicted of corruption in 2008 (a decision that has since been vacated) and, days later, losing his Senate seat to Mark Begich, the son of a late congressman who was then the mayor of Anchorage and the most powerful Democrat in the state.
Flood had been a journalist by trade before being convicted of treason (alongside other Irish rebels, for attempting an arms raid on Chester Castle in Liverpool) and sentenced to 15 years transportation to Western Australia.
Strawberry last played for the Yankees in 1999 before being convicted of drug charges.
Thaksin Shinawatra fled Thailand before being convicted of corruption.
One, David Hicks, was held for five years before being convicted last year of providing material support for terrorism.
In the ensuing few years, Whitey went on the road again, robbing banks in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Indiana before being convicted and going to federal prison for almost a decade.
