In an interview, Judge Reade said prosecutors had organized the immigrants' detention to make it easy for their lawyers to meet with them.
Joseph Marino, an assessor who retired in 1996, pleaded guilty to taking $4.1 million in bribes from Albert Schussler, 86, a wealthy executive who prosecutors say organized the scheme 35 years ago.
A former governor of Tamaulipas, Tomas Yarington, was indicted last year by U.S. federal prosecutors on organized crime charges and is now a fugitive.
B1 Mob Charges in Connecticut Federal prosecutors investigating organized crime in Connecticut announced the indictments of 18 people, including a 51-year-old Stamford man they say has been the underboss of the Gambino crime family for two and a half years.
Mrs. Del Ponte, who gained a record for toughness as a prosecutor fighting organized crime, called on the defense and foreign ministers in Paris in January.
President Felipe Calderón appointed Mexico's top prosecutor against organized crime, Marisela Morales, left, to be attorney general, which would make her the country's first woman in that post if approved by the Senate.
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Prosecutors said Mr. Killen organized the mob.
Prosecutors claim Khadzhikurbanov organized the killing, while one of the brothers followed Politkovskaya on the day and the other served as a lookout near the building.
