The indictments portrayed the Lucchese organized-crime family as the secret power in the city's multimillion-dollar painting industry for more than a decade.

The indictment portrayed Mr. Kehoe as the leader of the separatist group.

The indictment portrayed Mike Espy as an official who regularly accepted big and small favors from executives of companies regulated by his department.

The indictments portrayed a system permeated by malfeasance that took many forms.

The indictment portrays Officer Chincilla as the business manager.

The indictment portrays the three as requiring a "continuous stream of loans and financing" to finance their investments and to pay off other business loans.

The indictment portrays a plundering labor leader with a perverse interpretation of an old union song's last line: "Take it easy, but take it."

Yesterday's indictment portrayed union officials as trying to exploit every angle to pocket extra money.

The indictment portrayed one of the city's five Mafia groups, the Lucchese family, as the secret power in the city's multimillion-dollar painting industry.

The indictment portrays him not as a hero but as a treacherous man who violated "the government trust."