But his bail was revoked last month after he admitted that he had repeatedly contacted Lisa Thiesfield, a former aide to him and a defendant in a related federal corruption case, by telephone and in person.
R. Alexander Acosta, the United States attorney here, said that of all public corruption cases prosecuted by his office, Mr. Jenne's was "perhaps the most disheartening".
Mr. Espinosa says he is a victim of politics, which in one sense may be true: his is likely to be the first of many corruption cases pressed by the new government of President Vicente Fox against the members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ran Mexico for seven decades until this month.
In the two corruption cases filled by the ACC, Zia is charged with embezzling a total of $680,000 during her second tenure as the premier of the country in 2001-06.
It may be most helpful to compare New York to a more distant local government, one that, beset by corruption cases and embarrassed by the flamboyant abuse of family ties, has finally been shamed into action: Shanghai's.
Key human-rights and corruption cases, bravely undertaken by Mr Wahid, have yet to be concluded.
Although Chinese prosecutors say 80% of leads in corruption cases are submitted by ordinary citizens, anyone who publicly accuses a leader still in office of malfeasance does so at considerable risk.For submitting and organising petitions to the authorities about the corrupt activities of Shenyang's leaders, Mr Zhou was sent off without trial to a labour camp in May 1999.
The case stems from a period in 2009-2010, when the international community was seized by the idea that the aggressive prosecution of high-profile corruption cases in Afghanistan, backed by international financing and mentoring, would help to restore faith in the Afghan government and begin to inculcate the rule of law.
In the UK, more than 75% of corruption cases involving property investigated by the Metropolitan police's proceeds of corruption unit involved anonymous companies registered in "secrecy jurisdictions".
An increasingly distant leader who is dogged by corruption cases, Mr. Zardari has come under attack from the powerful Pakistani establishment, an alliance of parts of the military and the news media, who want him gone.
