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Los Angeles Distgrict Attorney Steve Cooley points to a display of arrested city of Bell officials during a news conference Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 in Los Angeles. Cooley announced the arrests over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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A member of the media uses a telephone to take a picture of a mug shot of Bell, Calif.'s former city manager, Robert Rizzo who was arrested Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 and displayed during a district attorney news conference in Los Angeles. Rizzo and seven other city officials were arrested over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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A woman aims a kick at an image of former City Manager Robert Rizzo, made during his arrest early Tuesday at his Huntington Beach home, as residents of the city of Bell, Calif., celebrate the arrest of current and former city officials on corruption charges, outside City Hall Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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This image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows city of Bell, Calif. mayor Oscar Hernandez who was arrested Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 along with seven others over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud.(AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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This image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows city of Bell official, George Cole who was arrested Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 along with seven others over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud.(AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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This image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows city of Bell official, George Mirabal who was arrested Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 along with seven others over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud.(AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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This image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows city of Bell official, Pier'Angela Spaccia who was arrested Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 along with seven others over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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This image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows city of Bell official, Teresa Jacobo who was arrested Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 along with seven others over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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This image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows city of Bell official, Luis Artiga who was arrested Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 along with seven others over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud.(AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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This image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows city of Bell official, Robert Rizzo who was arrested Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 along with seven others over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud.(AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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This image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows city of Bell official, Victor Bello who was arrested Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 along with seven others over allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and voter fraud.(AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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Maria Ruskiewicz, a law student at Oklahoma City University, said on Tuesday that Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz, a Wisconsin prosecutor accused of abusing his power to seek relationships with two other women, also sent her sexually harassing text messages in 2008 while helping her seek a pardon for a teenage drug conviction. (AP Photo/Oklahoma City University School of Law, Nathan Gunter)
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** FILE * The runway and control tower of the airport in Szymany, Poland, is show in 2005. Prosecutors are investigating possible abuse of power by Polish public officials in connection with a closed CIA black site near the secluded airport, in the country's northeast, to which flight logs trace several landings of planes linked to the CIA. (AP Photo, File)
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** FILE * Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., gestures during an interview in 2007. On Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, two men filed a lawsuit accusing Bishop Long of exploiting his role as pastor of the Atlanta-area megachurch to coerce them into sexual relationships when they were members of his congregation. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)
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In this 1997 file photo Austin "Jack" DeCoster, owner of an Iowa egg farm, walks to the courtroom in the Wright County Court house to testify in defense of his family's hog confinement facilities. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
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Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels addresses the media regarding the apparent suicide of player Kenny McKinley during a news conference at the team's headquater in Englewood, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Arapahoe County sheriff Grayson Robinsin said the second-year pro died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Centennial, Colo, near the Broncos' headquarters on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)
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Police officers detain Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called homosexuals "satanic" and routinely thwarted their attempts to hold a gay pride in Moscow. Police officers detained on Tuesday at least a dozen activists in a Moscow square near the city hall minutes after they brought out a papier-mache mummy that resembled Luzhkov and unfurled posters ridiculing him. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Police officers detain Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Police officers detain gay rights activists during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Police officer detains a gay rights activist during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept., 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called homosexuals "satanic" and routinely thwarted their attempts to hold a gay pride in Moscow. Police officers detained on Tuesday at least a dozen activists in a Moscow square near the city hall minutes after they brought out a papier-mache mummy that resembled Luzhkov and unfurled posters ridiculing him. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
