An Iraqi-American businessman who profited from the United Nations oil-for-food aid program with Iraq pleaded guilty Tuesday to four criminal counts.

Mr. McDonald and four other businessmen and politically connected go-betweens eventually pleaded guilty to corruption charges.

The businessman with whom Ms. Stern dealt, David Chang, pleaded guilty last June to reduced charges of funnelling $53,700 in illegal contributions to Mr. Torricelli's campaign.

Why would a powerful businessman succumb to extortion, plead guilty to a criminal charge of tax evasion, and pay a fine he did not owe?

According to family legend, one day in 1900 a local businessman dashed into the small New Haven lunch wagon and pleaded for a lunch to go.

Two businessmen pleaded guilty to engaging in a $4 billion tax-fraud scheme, a United States Attorney said.

That businessman, Lawrence Friedman, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges that he had bilked the state in an elaborate Medicaid fraud scheme, and agreed to return $48 million.

An Iranian businessman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to illegal export and money-laundering charges for trying to send fighter jet parts from the United States to Iran.

On the third day of his trial, the businessman, Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen, the former head of Imhausen-chemie AG, pleaded guilty to violating West German export and tax laws.

A millionaire businessman pleaded guilty in Federal court today to charges that he illegally imported Romanian cheese contaminated with a cancer-causing pesticide.