Lawyers representing the other six defendants named in the lawsuit did not return repeated calls to their offices today.

Wasiolek is one of the defendants named in the Ekstrand lawsuit.

"Then they created a sales contract from the defendant named in the deed to the true owner of the property."

McKenna wrote that five of the defendants named in the bill failed to answer.

Cases can't simply drag on indefinitely without defendants being named just so that lawyers can use the courts to extract settlements.

One defendant named in a drug charge could face up to 20 years in jail.

Some defendants named in the lawsuit did not participate in the settlement and will continue to litigate the case.

This case was later merged with a case against 52 defendants named in an indictment of 1,454 pages.

The defendant named in all the cases is Attorney General John Ashcroft.

She said that for 27 of the 29 defendants named in the indictment, the maximum sentence would be life in prison.