And this month, the independent ombudsman for the department said that ringleaders at the Giddings lockup had established a hierarchy in which the weakest offenders were "bought and owned" with drugs, cigarettes and money.
His aim was to show the court that a conspiracy had taken place the mass of accounts from officers and men appeared to support the conclusion that ringleaders and agitators had forced a rebellion against authority.
When we entered the concourse, not far from the rest rooms, we could see that the ringleader of the white thugs had started a fight and was bouncing off the torso of the ringleader of the African-Americans, a man who had a heavy upper body and did not appear to be in particularly good shape.
It charges that the ringleader was Baldetti's private secretary, Juan Carlos Monzón.
In announcing their indictment, Eliot L. Spitzer, the New York attorney general, said yesterday that the ringleader was Henry Cutts, 48, of the Bronx.
It was revealed last year that the ringleader of the plot, Mohammad Sidique Khan, had come to the attention of the police and MI5 at least nine times.
Reports have suggested that the ringleader of the Paris attacks, and one of the suspects in the Brussels bombings, had both visited Birmingham.
Federal prosecutors said today that the ringleader of the nation's deadliest smuggling case was a 25-year-old Honduran immigrant, who told a judge here that she spoke no English and had until recently worked at Levi's.
Newspaper reports had claimed incorrectly on Tuesday that the ringleader of the attack was the Islamist extremist Parviz Khan, who is serving a life sentence for plotting to behead a British soldier, but the Ministry of Justice denied this was the case.
The official, Gen. Nahim Baluch, who is the deputy director of the Afghan intelligence service, told Tolo TV that the ringleader was one of several suspects who had confessed to a role in the attack, which killed five people and wounded 38.
