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Two successive Illinois governors were prosecuted on corruption charges by Mr. Fitzgerald – George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich.
China Central Television said China's top prosecuting office had arrested Ling, who would be prosecuted on corruption charges.
Mr Peevski had been sacked from a previous Socialist-led government and prosecuted on corruption and extortion charges of which he was eventually cleared.
Mr. Netanyahu returned to Israel today from the United States after Israel's attorney general announced on Wednesday that there was insufficent evidence to prosecute him on corruption charges, clearing the way for a possible political comeback.
And so did the Brooklyn D.A.'s office, which did its best to keep the Sing Sing tape hidden, and the office of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District, which eventually prosecuted Detective Zahrey on corruption charges.
Justice Garson is the second Brooklyn judge in two years to be prosecuted on felony corruption charges.
Don Siegelman, the former governor of Alabama, has long insisted that he was prosecuted on vague corruption charges — for which he was sentenced to seven years in prison — because he was one of his state's leading Democrats.
He also said that he would raise with Russia the importance of making its criminal justice system "open and transparent" -- especially in prosecuting business leaders on corruption charges.
Early this year, when the United States attorney in New Jersey decided not to prosecute Mr. Torricelli on corruption charges, most analysts predicted that his prowess as a fund-raiser made him the heavy favorite to win re-election.
Miller's office also prosecuted then-Mayor Roger Hedgecock on corruption charges linked to his 1983 mayoral campaign to succeed Wilson, who had been elected to the U.S. Senate.
After deliberating for six months, Israel's attorney general said he had found insufficient evidence to prosecute former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, clearing the way for a possible political comeback by the conservative leader.
