Still, the indicted parties have alibis to hand.
In a news conference on Monday in San Diego, United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy declined to say which game in 2010 Johnson is charged with fixing, how much money the indicted parties are accused of betting on that game and how many games are suspected to have had points shaved.
When the government indicted additional party members, the defendants could not find attorneys to represent them.
Prosecutors later indicted two governing party officials on charges of hacking the National Election Commission's Web site to disrupt the October vote.
Last week, prosecutors indicted two ruling party officials on charges of mounting a hacking attack against the National Election Commission's Web site to disrupt the voting.
Several top members of Lieberman's party were indicted for corruption, and the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party was undergoing a schism.
In 1948 he was among the party leaders indicted for subversive activity, but, because of his precarious health, he was not brought to trial.
That signalled to the politician's followers that they should cast their run-off vote for Mr Noda, rather than the puppet candidate of Ichiro Ozawa, the party's indicted (and suspended) kingpin.
On July 20 , 1948 12 leaders of the Communist party were indicted under the Smith act as members of a conspiracy teaching and advocating the overthrow of the constitutional form of government of the United States by force and violence.
When the then majority leader DeLay first faced the possibility of prosecution on money laundering charges in Texas in 2004, Bonilla proposed a change in Republican caucus rules to allow party leaders indicted by a state grand jury to maintain their positions.
Nor has Mr. Haider's suggestion that the leader of a rival party be indicted for treason for sipping Champagne with France's prime minister -- particularly when the new minister of justice, Mr. Haider's former personal lawyer, was beside him and agreed that the idea was worth exploring.
