Perhaps aware of this potentially fatal problem in its current campaign against members, associates, and those who did business with Raj Rajaratnam's Galleon Group, the feds have made sweetheart deals with a number of those targeted for prosecution, extracting "cooperation" against higher-ups in exchange for pledges of recommended lower sentences.
This maneuver (using extradition as a means to subvert legal process and give prosecutors an advantage in building legal cases and extracting cooperation agreements or confessions) is rarely talked about but widely employed by U.S. law enforcement.
It began in July 1950, when F.B.I. agents arrested Julius Rosenberg in the family's Lower East Side apartment, thrusting the boys onto a global stage as bit players in their parents' appeals, in the government's efforts to extract their parents' cooperation, and in Soviet propaganda campaigns to cast the Rosenbergs as martyrs.
The mayor still needs to extract a pledge of cooperation between police and firefighters, who have sometimes allowed departmental competition to get the better of them, most tragically on 9/11.
But the Saudis have been expected to use their cooperation to extract more concessions from Obama on half a dozen issues.
The euro-zone authorities want to appear as indifferent as possible to Greece's situation so as to extract the maximum amount of cooperation from the Greek authorities and the electorate.
The French were dependent on how much cooperation they could extract from the Belgians.
Or is he playing a double game -- exaggerating how hard it would be to rein them in, in order to maintain his hold on power or extract a higher price from Washington for his cooperation?
What Trump didn't reveal publicly is how much the company has become a bargaining chip as the White House tries to extract trade-related concessions from China while pushing for cooperation on sanctions against Iran and North Korea, the people said.
Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned against US intervention in Iraq, but US officials suspect that Iran wants to use its cooperation in political changes in Baghdad to extract concessions in negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme.
