State prosecutors and administration officials said they expected Mr. Boyle to leave the Port Authority because of the accusations.
First, governments impose "legal financial obligations" or LFOs--fees for public defenders, prosecutors, court administration, jail operation, and probation supervision--in addition to outstanding fines for traffic violations or other low-level offenses.
But in interviews, former prosecutors and other administration and Congressional officials offered a different perspective.
Against that backdrop, beginning with the Justice Department in the George W. Bush administration, prosecutors began developing more expansive theories about the type of graft that the statute covered.
Do we think that the problem with Guantánamo is that the prosecutors the last Administration sent there simply weren't honorable enough? (Some have been extraordinarily honorable).
State prosecutors and Clinton administration officials had repeatedly emphasized that Microsoft's antitrust violations demonstrated that a consent decree restricting the company's policies would never work to constrain the company from future violations.
But Chilean authorities detained him, and Peru is now seeking his extradition, accusing him of hijacking democracy and directing death squads during an administration prosecutors call a quasi dictatorship steeped in graft and rights abuses.
WASHINGTON, April 23 - Zacarias Moussaoui's sudden decision this week to plead guilty to being part of a plan by Al Qaeda to crash planes into American buildings provided administration prosecutors with an unassailable victory.
But under an agreement with prosecutors, the Bloomberg administration will acknowledge its failures and set up a new division within the Fire Department, financed with several million dollars and staffed with about 25 civilians.
If confirmed, Mr. Mukasey would take over a department that has been burdened by the weight of Congressional inquiries into the dismissals of federal prosecutors and the administration's domestic wiretapping program.
