And this month a deputy chairman of BoC received a lengthy prison term for bribe-taking and embezzlement.
On Tuesday, he was sentenced to a four-year term for bribing a judge.
A judge also ordered the release of his brother, Miguel, but Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela will remain in prison after being sentenced to a four-year term for bribing a judge.
Meanwhile, a former mayor of Camden, Milton Milan, a Democrat, is serving an 87-month term for taking bribes; the mayor of Paterson, Martin G. Barnes, is under indictment; and Sara B. Bost, the mayor of Irvington and a Democrat, was indicted on similar corruption charges this month.
However, despite his denials, Olmert may yet have an additional eight-months added onto his prison term for taking bribes from American businessman Morris "Moshe" Talansky.
Two Northwestern basketball players were sentenced to jail terms for taking bribes to fix a number of Big Ten games in 1995.
SHANGHAI — The former head of the Chinese soccer association and 10 other former national team players and executives were sentenced by Chinese courts Wednesday to lengthy prison terms for accepting bribes and fixing matches, according to Xinhua, the state-run news agency.
Two Shenzhen officials were sentenced to 10-year prison terms for accepting bribes from Shi, who has not been charged with any bribery-related crimes, the Chinese media reports said.
Mr. Velella, a longtime political power in the Bronx and close ally of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, had been serving a prison term for conspiring to accept bribes.
After offering a crude, confrontational defense in daring to serve as his own lawyer, Representative James A. Traficant of Ohio was convicted on 10 counts of corruption and racketeering for turning his office into what the government termed a "trough" for bribes and kickbacks.
The airline is also offering incentives (or, to use the strikers' term, "bribes") for cabin crew not to strike: according to strikers, those who stay at work get priority for free flights and upgrades to first class.
