But he warned the men, who are brothers, that they should not consider themselves exonerated, and he said that if new evidence came to light, prosecutors were free to charge them again.
She added that she would abide by the 30-month sentence Kiriakou and federal prosecutors had reached as part of an October plea deal but said it was "way too light". Prosecutors said Kiriakou's action endangered the officer and damaged the CIA's ability to collect intelligence.
The deceit came to light, prosecutors said, through inconsistencies in audits and the persistence of state and federal grant program inspectors who left scratching their heads after meetings with the men or visits to the bogus facilities they had set up.
He veered his car "towards parked vehicles" before correcting himself and went through a red light, prosecutor Henry Fitch said.
The renovations to Mr. Chass's two-bedroom apartment on West 76th Street included new bathrooms, kitchen, floors and lighting, prosecutors said.
An off-duty police officer was indicted on drunken-driving and other charges yesterday stemming from 45 minutes of mayhem in Upper Manhattan on Dec. 19, when the car he was driving struck a pedestrian, a parked car, a taxi and five cars waiting at traffic lights, prosecutors said.
Afterward, Anderson drove against traffic and didn't stop at signals or stop lights, prosecutors said, finally crashing his pickup in a residential area, where he was arrested.
Mr. Spitzer's patronage of the prostitution agency, Emperor's Club V.I.P., came to light after prosecutors charged four people with operating the service.
One by one, the jurors stood on the stoop at 46th Street and Third Avenue where Rosa Citron, a witness for the prosecution, said she watched Mr. Gray speed through a red light, which, prosecutors argued, caused the crash.
Both Nixon and President Bill Clinton were accused of obstruction of justice by lawmakers as part of impeachment proceedings, drawing on evidence brought to light by prosecutors who, rather than charging them with crimes, sent reports to the House Judiciary Committee for impeachment consideration.
Mr Snipes claims in a motion to dismiss the case against him, which was filed on June 4 this year but has only just come to light, that prosecutors filed additional tax evasion charges against him and not against two co-defendants, because they are "Caucasian, while Mr Snipes is African-American".
