Last year, a federal grand jury in New York began a criminal investigation into Mahmoud Karzai's business activities in Afghanistan, pursuing accusations of tax evasion, racketeering and extortion.
Jon Summers, a spokesman for Mr. Reid, said the senator had long been concerned over "rampant" levels of crime in polygamous communities, including the abuse of women and children, financial crimes like welfare fraud and tax evasion, kidnapping and extortion.
In October he was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for extortion, tax evasion, and fraud.
They are accused of bribery, extortion and tax evasion.
Three weeks earlier, Robert C. Janiszewski, who had resigned as Hudson County executive and disappeared a year ago, pleaded guilty to extortion and tax evasion.
On March 19, he was convicted of 16 counts of criminal misconduct, including racketeering, extortion, bribery, tax evasion and mail fraud.
Pleaded guilty to extortion and tax evasion on Oct. 3. TERRANCE D. WELDON -- 53, former mayor of Ocean Township in Mon mouth County.
On Tuesday, a jury convicted the couple of extortion and tax evasion charges, but acquitted them of mail fraud charges relating to Mr. Inclán's testimony.
He was succeeded by Gerald Ford, whom he had appointed vice president in 1973 after Agnew resigned his office amid charges of having committed bribery, extortion, and tax evasion during his tenure as governor of Maryland.
When the Organized Crime Control Bureau investigated the fish market for extortion, income tax evasion and tapping (the practice of swiping a few fish out of the box), it was frustrated by stonewalling.
