No high-level convictions followed.
Mr. Barofsky's office stopped that fraud in its tracks and eventually obtained one of the few high-level convictions resulting from the financial crisis.
In Germany and the Netherlands there have also been isolated high-level convictions, and some landmark cases could yet materialise.
It also remains true that for all the arrests, there has not been one high-level conviction during Mr Obasanjo's six years in power.Moreover, a suspicion exists that the selection of those to be arrested might have more to do with political self-interest than any altruistic desire to purge Nigeria of corruption.
The RapidSOS mission to improve services for specific patient groups led the team to focus with a high level of conviction on a disruption strategy.
"There's still not a very high level of conviction that the economy is slowing enough that the Federal Reserve can stop tapping the brakes," said Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer at the First Albany Corporation.
Analyst Anthony Codling said: We start the year with a high level of conviction that the price of the UK housebuilders shares will outperform the overall UK stock market during 2016.
Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly praised Rihanna's high level of emotional conviction on "Stupid in Love", writing that it is a piece of "self-lacerating balladry".
I got to know the business models better, and I had a higher level of conviction that these models didn't make sense.
Spouses and children of former drug offenders can also apply to the program, as can residents of 29 "areas of disproportionate impact" across Massachusetts that saw high levels of drug convictions.
"There's such a high level of hopelessness and a real conviction among sufferers that they are ugly to look at or flawed," explains O'Connor.
