Investigators' targeting of the communications records of Associated Press and Fox News reporters in separate investigations came to light in May, setting off a furor among journalists and in Congress about the administration's increasingly aggressive record on leak inquiries.
Investigators targeted a number of organised crime gangs.
The movement regained momentum this month after investigators targeted Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the influential former president, who picked Ms. Rousseff as his successor.
Investigators targeted Southwood Pharmaceuticals, a mom-and-pop distributor in Lake Forest, Calif., where shipments of hydrocodone had skyrocketed over nine months in 2005, from 7,000 doses per month to 3 million.
The following year, state investigators targeted organizations that received money from the Norway Grants, which the Scandinavian nation uses to promote social and economic equality in the formerly communist East.
Lou Fascio, who owns the largest casino in Reno, Nev., and Bill Goodman, who owns gun shows in Tennessee and Ohio, told New York they will end sales without background checks after New York City investigators targeted their shows in a 2009 undercover operation.
But the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is providing Monnett legal representation, has alleged that federal investigators targeted their initial questions primarily at a 2006 article he co-wrote in the journal Polar Biology.
