Accordingto information from her publicist Nadine Jolson, Joosten embraced the "Desperate Housewives" plot that called for her to be diagnosed with -- and eventually succumb to -- lung cancer in the series' final season.
Ms. White, Mr. Khuzami and another prosecutor made the case for indicting the cleric for theplot at a high-level meeting at the Justice Department in Washington, accordingto people familiar with the meeting.