However, the official said, President Bush has said that he did not believe that amnesty agreements were the best way to address abuses against illegal immigrants.

He was sentenced to 14 years in prison (reduced to 10 years under an amnesty agreement) and over US$8 million in fines.

"The government has the authority to get this data without an amnesty agreement," said Barclay Rogers, a lawyer for the Sierra Club.

Mr. Davidge would presumably be a central witness under his and Christie's amnesty agreements with the government.

However the amnesty agreement was typed before the charges were sent, putting the Governor in a bind.

The governor decides he will charge Redding if he breaks the amnesty agreement.

The general simply ignored the terms of his own amnesty agreement when it suited him and allied himself with other Filipinos, she complained.

The amnesty agreement would not require a corporate farm to clean up air pollution even if the agency found that pollution was at dangerously high levels.

A court ruling upheld an amnesty agreement obtained during the incarceration of parliament by the group.

Mr. Davidge, who resigned under fire in December 1999, is also helping prosecutors and is part of the amnesty agreement.