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They have since made a major case against the company based on the tip; other accusations of improper trading practices by Putnam have also been made recently by the commission.

This month, it won a major case against Ohio Edison, a unit of FirstEnergy, with a federal judge ruling that the plant upgraded seven coal-fired power plants illegally because it did not install pollution equipment.

The major action, however, has been at the FTC, which last year launched a major case against Intel and now seems on the verge of challenging this Google acquisition.

The firm has purchased 200 patents and has embarked on some 15 lawsuits, including one major case against Comcast, Time-Warner and other major cable- and broadcast-TV companies in federal court in Delaware.

Despite widespread allegations that fraudulent and predatory behavior on the part of banks and peddlers of predatory mortgages drove that crisis, the Justice Department secured a conviction in only one major case against an investment banker.

The United States attorney's office in Manhattan has won a number of major cases against big investors, corporate executives and others.

MIAMI — Lawton Chiles spent his last years as governor battling Big Tobacco, pushing one of the first major cases against cigarette companies, which resulted in an endowment of almost $2 billion and a "truth campaign" against smoking that became a national model.

During the tenure of Robert Khuzami, the former enforcement chief of the S.E.C. who filed major cases against Wall Street firms, the agency came under scrutiny for not leveling bigger fines.

Mr. Barrett argues strenuously that Mr. Giuliani's record as United States attorney was actually not as good as his predecessor's in that job or as good as his rival's in the Eastern District in Brooklyn, although he does allow that Mr. Giuliani won his share of major cases, against organized crime and against corrupt Democratic politicians.

Three major cases against GE -- the accounting fraud case, the issue of Jack Welch's compensation, and the Iraqi bribery case -- all occurred during the tenure of its current CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, who assumed that role in 2001.

Market regulator NASD is pursuing 12 investigations into whether brokerages promoted certain mutual funds in exchange for trading business, and expects to bring a major case soon against a brokerage, an NASD official said Thursday.