Authorities also said that a second, unidentified Assemblyman was charged in a sealed indictment, cooperated in the corruption probe, and will resign to avoid prosecution.

However, his sentence was reduced for cooperation with an ongoing federal corruption probe.

In July 2006 it had been reported that she was at the centre of another political corruption probe.

And Honey Fitz's political downfall in a corruption probe is kept curiously hazy.

On 27 March 2008, Acevedo Vilá was formally charged in the long-running public corruption probe, along with 12 other people.

A corruption probe resulted in the conviction a close to two dozen people, some with close ties to Mayor John F. Street.

This was as part of a corruption probe into Giuseppe Orsi.

In the following months over 30 persons were charged as a result of the corruption probe.

A former governor of Alabama whose administration has faced numerous corruption probes has been indicted on bid-rigging charges, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

With the crisis falling into call for corruption probe by MGR, he was eventually suspended from the General Council.