But in the aftermath of the collapse of the conviction last week, lawyers poring over the wreckage said they believed the case had been poorly managed and inadequately supervised, lacked sufficient resources and been hampered by conflicts between prosecutors and F.B.I. agents going back months.
Album: Convict of Conviction.
The suit, filed in a state court in Indiana, says that the three firms -- Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young and KPMG -- sought to hire away Andersen partners when the firm was in trouble after the collapse of Enron and before its conviction on one count of obstructing justice for shredding Enron documents.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was "insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction" in the case in light of the collapse of the Tulisa Contostavlos trial.
The end of the cold war only deepened this conviction; after the collapse of the Soviet Union, democratic capitalism seemed the only game in town.
The launching of the ideological campaign is most likely based on the conviction that the collapse of the Marxist/Communist Eastern camp during the Cold War proved once and for all the unquestionable superiority and universal applicability of democracy and its political and economic institutions.
He makes the point that the change was more a collapse of the old system than great conviction in a new one and that bringing one system down is harder than setting a new one up.
One of his most important decisions since he took his current job was to approve the indictment of Arthur Andersen, a move that ultimately led to its collapse and conviction.
Since 2009 the federal authorities in New York have prosecuted 66 people for insider trading, mostly arising from the collapse of Wall St, and got 57 convictions or guilty pleas.
The convictions follow the collapse of Holy Land's first trial last year and defeats in other cases the government tried to build.
