Federal prosecutors also brought Mann Act charges against Chaplin related to Barry in 1944, of which he was acquitted.

However, in fall 2004, three former Costa Rican presidents ( Jose Maria Figueres, Miguel Angel Rodríguez, and Rafael Angel Calderon ) were investigated on corruption charges related to the issuance of government contracts.

These charges were related to the abduction and attempted deprogramming of Roberta McElfish, a 26-year-old Tucson waitress.

* 1970 – My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.

On August 15, 2007, Donaghy pleaded guilty to two federal charges related to the investigation.

Oviedo became the Colorado candidate for president in the 1998 election, but when the Supreme Court of Paraguay upheld in April his conviction on charges related to the 1996 coup attempt, he was not allowed to run and remained in confinement.

A plea agreement means settlement of case without main hearing when the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for a lesser charge or for a more lenient sentence and / or for dismissal of certain related charges.

Rothstein turned himself in to federal authorities and was subsequently arrested on charges related to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

In February 1985 Klan members and a Klan sympathizer pleaded guilty to federal and state charges related to the fire.

In the period from 2003 to 2011, Mudawi Ibrahim Adam was repeatedly arrested for charges related to his human rights work with the group Sudan Social Development Organization.

On 5 November 2006, Saddam was convicted of charges related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi ' ites and was sentenced to death by hanging.

Both had pleaded not guilty to the charges, which related to money taken from loan applicants ' accounts for a funeral fund, but from which the applicants did not benefit.

* September 28 – Law enforcement officials in the United States, Colombia, and Italy announce that they have arrested more than 165 people on money laundering charges related to cocaine trafficking.

* March 17 – My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.

Kosovo Police established a special investigation team to handle cases related to the 2004 unrest and according to Kosovo Judicial Council by the end of 2006 the 326 charges filed by municipal and district prosecutors for criminal offenses in connection with the unrest had resulted in 200 indictments: convictions in 134 cases, and courts acquitted eight and dismissed 28 ; 30 cases were pending.

Fastow served a six-year prison sentence for charges related to these acts.

Jean Tiberi, Chirac's successor at the Paris townhall, was forced to resign after having been put under investigations in June 1999 on charges of trafic d ' influences in the HLMs of Paris affairs ( related to the illegal financing of the RPR ).

A simpler but related instrument, the electroscope, works on similar principles but only indicates the relative magnitudes of voltages or charges.

* The magnitude of the electrical charge of one mole of elementary charges ( approximately 6. 022, or Avogadro's number ) is known as a faraday unit of charge ( closely related to the Faraday constant ).

On March 15, 2005 Bernard Ebbers was found guilty of all charges and convicted of fraud, conspiracy and filing false documents with regulators — all related to the $ 11 billion accounting scandal at the telecommunications company he founded.

New York prosecutors, headed by Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo, announced on 21 December 2010 that they have sued the firm for fraud charges related to repo 105 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

More significantly, an inquiry was begun into charges related to Houston's administration of supplies for the Native Americans.

He was under indictment in the United States and UK for crimes related to BCCI, but Pakistani officials refused to give him up for extradition because they felt the charges were politically motivated.

Jarrai-Haika-Segi, Gestoras pro-Amnistia, Askatasuna and other groups closely related to Batasuna have been also declared illegal by different court rulings on the same charges of having collaborated with or being part of ETA, while these charges and its juridical arguments have been highly disputed.

`` This was not merely alleging errors, but was carried out by day-after-day allegations in memos, written charges of serious consequence.

Frémont was already under a cloud with charges of negligence in his command of the Department of the West compounded with allegations of fraud and corruption.

Li, whose family has often been at the center of corruption allegations within the Chinese power industry, was vulnerable to these charges.

In 1983 charges were laid in the McMartin preschool trial, a major case in California, which received attention throughout the United States, and contained allegations of satanic ritual abuse.

Though the initial charges featured allegations of Satanic abuse and a vast conspiracy, these features were dropped relatively early in the trial and prosecution continued only for non-ritual allegations of child abuse against only two individuals.

The Nottingham investigation resulted in criminal charges of severe child abuse that ultimately had nothing to do with Satanic rituals, and was criticized for focusing on the irrelevant and non-existent Satanic aspects of the allegations at the expense of the severe conventional abuse endured by the children.

Following an investigation of the allegations by a former University staff member that undue pressure was applied to the School of Music's External Examiner, QAA upheld all charges of wrongdoing, as alleged.

He saw parallels to Olmsted's Central Park as a “ sylvan ” green overlay on the depleted landscape that preceded his Central Park Defending himself against allegations that he and other earth artists “ cut and gouge the land like Army engineers ”, Smithson, in his own essay, charges that one of such opinions “ failed to recognize the possibility of a direct organic manipulation of the land ..” and would “ turn his back on the contradictions that inhabit our landscapes ”

Although Ekéus has said that he resisted attempts at such espionage, many allegations have since been made against the agency commission under Butler, charges which Butler has denied.

Citing repeated instances where Dr. O ' Toole's allegations were " not credible ", the panel dismissed all charges against Imanishi-Kari.

He denied all charges, saying that homosexuality is " defiant, abominable and wrong ", and the allegations made against him were " pathological lies " intended to destroy his political career.

On June 18, 2007, the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education voted to drop Vang's name from the new school, in light of the federal charges against him and the previous allegations.

* President Bill Clinton was impeached by the United States House of Representatives in 1998 for obstruction of justice charges based on allegations Clinton lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

Anwar stood trial on four charges of corruption, arising from allegations that Anwar abused his power by ordering police to intimidate persons who had alleged Anwar had sodomised them.

These allegations have also been explored in the recent documentary film Secrets of the Tribe by Brazilian director José Padilha and in a peer-reviewed publication in the journal Human Nature by Alice Dreger, an historian of medicine and science, and an outsider to the debate, who concluded that Tierney's claims were " baseless and sensationalistic charges ".

Gayoom's tenure was marked by allegations of autocratic rule, human rights abuses and corruption, charges that he still denies.

Janklow denied all allegations connected with the rape case, and no criminal charges were filed.

On February 5, 2004, the Delhi High Court quashed the charges of bribery against Rajiv Gandhi and others, On May 31, 2005, the Delhi High Court dismissed the allegations against the British business brothers, Shrichand, Gopichand and Prakash Hinduja, but charges against others remain.

" The light sentence and the dropping of the more serious charges triggered outrage across Canada, as well as more extensive investigation of events leading up to the incident prompting the arrest, which led to allegations Jaffer met with several escorts.

These allegations were withdrawn as part of a February 2003 plea bargain in which Enaam Arnaout pleaded guilty to racketeering charges.

' ( The charges involved one act of forced oral sex and one act of vaginal penetration, with no allegations of anal intercourse.

In 1981, Gayoom sentenced him to jail in absentia for alleged corruption charges and plotting a coup d ' état ; none of the allegations were proven and Nasir was pardoned.