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And in Union City, Mayor William V. Musto, who was also a state senator, was convicted of seeking bribes.

The officials also gave contradictory accounts of the suspects' legal status, first saying they had been tried and convicted of seeking to join Taliban forces in Afghanistan, but later saying prosecutions were still pending.

A Russian arms dealer has been convicted of seeking to make millions of dollars by selling heavy weaponry to a terror group so it could attack what prosecutors said he told his customers was a common enemy — US forces helping the Colombian government.

In 1982, William V. Musto, who served simultaneously as the mayor of Union City and as a state senator, was convicted of seeking bribes in return for school construction contracts, paving the way for Mr. Botti, whose bid-rigging conviction arrived less than a year later.

In that trial, two other police officers were cleared of beating Mr. Louima in a police car, but in subsequent trials the two officers were convicted of seeking to cover up Officer Schwarz's role, and another officer was convicted of lying to federal investigators.

In the case of this week's attacks in France, the charge has added force: the suspects were known not just to French but also to other European and American authorities; one had travelled to Yemen over a three-year period and another had been convicted of earlier seeking to travel to Iraq; and they were plugged into long-established European jihadist networks.

His conviction, however, has jeopardized that, since Brazilian law prohibits politicians convicted of crimes from seeking public office.

Captain Levy, a 30-year-old dermatologist from Brooklyn, was convicted of disobedience and seeking to promote disloyalty.

Mr. Menendez entered politics almost three decades ago, becoming a protégé of State Senator William V. Musto, who was also the mayor of Union City until he was convicted of racketeering for seeking bribes for awarding school construction contracts.

Brazilian law, however, bars anyone convicted of corruption from seeking office.

In 2007, when Mr. Chung of Hyundai-Kia was convicted of embezzlement, he sought the court's lenience by vowing to donate 840 billion won by 2013.