Chun Doo-hwan and Roh the-woo, the military strongmen who ruled South Korea from 1979 until 1993, were convicted of illegally seizing power in a coup and extorting hundreds of millions of dollars from big businesses.
The officer, Vladimir Kvachkov, a former colonel in the Soviet military intelligence service, was convicted of plotting to seize weapons from military caches and launch an attack on Moscow with a small group of ultranationalist supporters in 2010.
Nor has anyone of his rank been convicted of corruption since the party seized power in 1949.
On Wednesday, a man in Manhattan Criminal Court who had just been convicted of drug dealing tried to seize a court officer's gun, which discharged during a struggle before other officers subdued the man.
In 1960, he and a partner defended Dr. R. Bernard Finch, a wealthy physician from West Covina, Calif., who, in a scandalous case that seized national headlines, was convicted of killing his wife.
Gen. Mohammad al-Dahabi, who ran the service from 2005 to 2008, was later convicted of stealing millions of dollars that G.I.D. officers had seized from Iraqi citizens crossing into Jordan in the years after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
As expected, Francis shot at her, but he was seized by plain clothes policemen, and convicted of high treason.
He was convicted of murdering 16-year-old Aleta Bunch, whom he had seized in a shopping mall in Augusta, Ga., when he was 17.
The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan is right to move to seize state pensions from lawmakers who are convicted of corruption charges, instead of waiting for the New York Legislature to act.
He spoke with New York Governor William H. Seward and secured his promise to pardon Alexander McLeod, who had seized and burned the Caroline, if he were convicted of a crime in New York.
