The files exposed a pattern in the way the cases were handled suggesting a vulnerability in the anti-smuggling strategy.
Just this week, HSBC apologized after a Senate committee exposed a pattern of money laundering for "drug kingpins and rogue nations".
Britain's most senior police officer said if allegations about Savile had been linked while he was alive, they would have exposed "a pattern of behaviour".
And Britain's most senior police officer said if allegations about Jimmy Savile had been linked while he was alive, they would have exposed "a pattern of behaviour".
In the Senate, public hearings exposed a pattern of financial abuse by such distinguished banking institutions as J. P. Morgan, National City Bank and Chase National Bank that included insider trading, market manipulation, reckless speculation and special favors to influential friends.
Such broader moments also act as camouflage for the show's true strength, its sneaky, slow-building subtlety, including a technique in which the Kings plant a story, bit by bit, to the point that viewers have no idea where the plot is going, then expose a pattern.
The final pleas to the jury came on the 14th day of a trial in Manhattan federal court that is the climax of a four-year investigation that unearthed one of the biggest art scandals in recent history and exposed a pattern of cozy, lucrative and often illegal dealings between two houses that had often been portrayed as cutthroat competitors.
In June, an article in The New York Times Magazine exposed a pattern of sexual abuse of students by teachers in the 1990s and earlier, igniting a firestorm of emotion and reaction among alumni of the prestigious private school, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
"Recent court cases have exposed a pattern of companies using bogus self-employed status as a route to cheap labour," the committees write.
A daily tracking of their actual police performance might well have exposed a pattern about these officers' willingness to use force in effectuating their duties.
