Several states are even drafting laws against derelicts and say they are aggressively starting to pursue delinquent owners.
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been helping the legislative drive behind the scenes, even drafting some of the bills, according to legislators and patient advocates.
The government's efforts to manage the shortages have included moving clocks forward half an hour, closing schools on Fridays, sending civil servants home three days a week, and even drafting in Maduro himself to dispense energy-saving tips.
Massa has also promised to get tough on crime, even drafting in former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani to make a speech about his "zero tolerance" record at a campaign rally earlier in the month.
Recently, says Mr LoPucki, judges have allowed managers at Polaroid and Enron, for example, to sell assets before even drafting a restructuring plan, thus avoiding a formal creditor vote and the hundreds of pages disclosing information that must accompany it.
Stangneth also revealed that Eichmann dreamed of returning to Germany and putting himself on trial, even drafting an open letter to the West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer to propose just that.
