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The last major stock market crash after the millennial tech boom led to a spate high profile prosecutions and convictions at firms including Enron, WorldCom and Tyco.

Beyond Waco and the Elian Gonzalez incident, defining moments that bookended her term as attorney general, Reno oversaw the high profile prosecutions of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

The time has come to impose that same scrutiny on the unbridled cash flow for high profile prosecutions -- from taxpayer cash cows -- and impose limits.

The trial, which could go on for up to three months, represents the highest profile prosecution of an accused leaker of state secrets conducted under the presidency of Barack Obama.

Ashcroft's high-profile prosecution effort mysteriously imploded.

Why did such a tissue of lies produce a high-profile prosecution?

"The government has to be wary of bringing charges in a very high-profile prosecution and then suffering a staggering defeat".

Though Mr. Spitzer has not been charged with a crime, lawyers for the Emperor's Club defendants say his celebrity has made the case an unusually high-profile prosecution.

That potential appears to have been traded away for the sake of a high-profile prosecution that is politically and emotionally satisfying.

It suggested to some that the authorities were keen to avoid a repeat of the high-profile prosecution of Pussy Riot, the anti-government punk performance group, which made international media stars of some of the young women involved.

One high-profile prosecution against two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers, Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, ended in abject failure in November, when a jury decided that incompetence and mismanagement didn't amount to a crime.