But the scale and breadth of the operation was enough to leave anyone slack-jawed.
She expressed shock at "the brazenness and breadth of the operation required to sustain such corruption".
Immerse your successor in the business of your company so he or she sees both the depth and breadth of the operation.
But a sampling that showed the geographical breadth of the operation included one person from the New York City area: Virgilio Lopez-Ruiz, a 54-year-old Dominican who was living in the Bronx.
Lynch said: "The Department of Justice is committed to ending the rampant corruption we have described amidst the leadership of international soccer – not only because of the scale of the schemes alleged earlier and today, or the brazenness and breadth of the operation required to sustain such corruption, but also because of the affront to international principles that this behaviour represents".
It's this dynamic – the frustration and alienation felt by the illiterate, the unemployed, the helpless – which underpins Boko Haram, driving a steady stream of new recruits into their arms and ensuring some degree of popular support, without which they could surely not maintain the sheer breadth of their operations (which are even spilling across Nigeria's borders).
The 2013 Snowden revelations ignited a vehement debate on the legitimacy and breadth of intelligence operations that monitor the Internet and telecommunications worldwide.
Mr de Castries has emphasised the breadth of Winterthur's operations: it serves 13m clients in 17 countries with a mix of life, property and casualty, and pension products.
The breadth of St . Marys operations permits the company to have the flexibility to change its focus when challenges in any one area create issues.
In four years on the job, Mr. Pozen recast Fidelity's fund unit, struggling in 1996 from withdrawals and poor performance, into one defined by a breadth of styles, increased international operations and closely managed risk.
Indeed, the size and breadth of Carlyle's investment operations, which span private equity, real estate and hedge funds, may serve as an attraction to potential investors, according to experts.
