Now the company is in bankruptcy, its stock trading for pennies a share, and the way it was run will be central to the expected prosecution of Scott Sullivan, the former chief financial officer, and David Myers, the former controller, on charges of constructing a massive accounting fraud at WorldCom.
Mr Abdullah says he expects prosecutions to follow current inquiries.
Mr Larkin's proposal prompted First Minister Peter Robinson to say it was "effectively an amnesty" and that those who were victims of the Troubles had a right to expect prosecutions.
They argue that a teacher, say, suspected of hacking phones and accessing voicemail would expect prosecution.
His political enemies – notably Hillary Clinton – can expect prosecution led by an FBI that previously found no grounds for legal action over her private email server.
In an interview on Friday night, President Saakashvili said he expected the prosecution to fail.
Legal experts said they expected the prosecution, led by Commonwealth Attorney Paul B. Ebert, to have an easier time finding jurors it wanted.
Some legal experts and even senators said they had expected the prosecution to call more witnesses who dealt directly with Mr. Blagojevich in connection with each accusation.
As Jess Bravin, the Wall Street Journal's Supreme Court correspondent, reports in "The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantánamo Bay," Ashcroft expected the prosecution of people involved in 9/11 to be handled criminally, by his department, as had been done, successfully, with earlier terrorism cases.
A7 More Trials Likely in Bosnia The war crimes tribunal in Bosnia-Herzegovina said it expects more prosecutions in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre after a government commission announced the names of more than 17,000 Bosnian Serb soldiers, police officers and officials involved in the killings.
