An unindicted co-conspirator can be indicted at any moment; his lawyer will therefore usually advise him, at the very least, not to annoy the prosecutor by helping the defence.In 2009 James Treacy, a former executive of Monster Worldwide, an employment website, was convicted of illegally manipulating (or "backdating") stock options and handed a two-year sentence.
"A detective who was the driving force behind these convictions has now been convicted for manipulating the justice system," said Mr. Salzman, of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
The five men face a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment and a fine if convicted of intimidating or manipulating witnesses – a recurrent problem faced by the ICC in other cases as well.
Internet marketers have been convicted of trying to manipulate online sentiment on behalf of clients by posting false information about competitors or deleting critical posts.
If it was bad behaviour, everyone working at Barclays investment bank offices on both sides of the Atlantic were in the know, according to the most senior banker yet to be convicted of plotting to manipulate Libor interests rates.
The former judge, Gerald P. Garson, 74, was convicted of accepting bribes to manipulate matrimonial cases in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
The mastermind of the game-rigging operation in Finland was Wilson Raj Perumal, a Singaporean convicted of paying 11 players to manipulate the outcome of Finnish league games.
A court in Bochum last week began handing down jail sentences of three to four years to gamblers and betting-shop operators convicted of bribing players to throw games or manipulate play.
Internet marketers in China have been convicted of illegal business practices for trying to manipulate customers on behalf of clients by posting bogus allegations about competitors or deleting critical posts.
The Senate voted 61 to 20 to convict Ms. Rousseff on charges of manipulating the federal budget in an effort to conceal the nation's mounting economic problems.
