The five former Grace executives, all now retired, face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the most serious charges.
Mr. Gaither, a friend of the late Princess Grace of Monaco, a former actress, was a founding trustee in 1982 and remained a trustee and director till his death.
Before Mr. Green, there was the embarrassing fall from grace of former City Councilman Angel Rodriguez, the man whom the organization had vigorously -- and unsuccessfully -- backed to become Council speaker after the 2001 elections.
But her rapid promotion to leader would have been unimaginable without the fall from grace of the former chancellor and those associated with him, including his successor as party leader, Wolfgang Schauble, and the former defense minister, Volker Ruhe.
She did, and was stunned to learn about what she calls the "fall from grace" of a former colleague in the Manhattan district attorney's office, Eliot Spitzer.
Representatives are working on their golf games and apparently taking some pleasure in reading about the fall from grace of their former colleague Dan Rostenkowski.
Mr MacLennan jumped ship to become chief executive at the Telegraph Group last October after it was bought by the Barclay brothers following the fall from grace of its former owner, Conrad Black.
The band struck up "New York, New York," and a succession of elderly Jewish women made their way to the stage and into the Mayor's arms He glided about with the grace of a former prosecutor, which seemed a precisely appropriate level of proficiency.
On Thursday, by the grace of God, we finally received the former.
It had unquestionably contributed to the ruin of our marriage that my former husband and I had been friends rather than devoted spouses, but in this case, there but for the grace of God went we.
