Of the nine major prosecution witnesses, seven have been intimidated, by means including by death threats, said a United States Army judge advocate general who is advising Iraqi judicial officials.
Mr. Jenoff, 55, a major prosecution witness and a former member of Rabbi Neulander's synagogue, M'kor Shalom in Cherry Hill, testified last week that Rabbi Neulander had hired him to kill his wife in exchange for $30,000 and help in joining the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.
Lengthy delays were called when the court asked the prosecution to ask the Central Intelligence Agency to reveal blacked-out parts of its cables related to an informer, Abdul Majid Giaka, who became a major prosecution witness.
In one of her major prosecutions, Ms. Sotomayor helped win convictions of two men in a child pornography case.
Austerity cuts imposed by central government have left local government trading standards teams fearful of the financial risks of taking on major prosecutions, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute has warned in its latest survey of the profession.
In the last seven years, it has been the scene of several major prosecutions, beginning with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a later plot to blow up the United Nations and other sites in New York.
In some of his major prosecutions, including the Rajaratnam case, the defendant had traded on information provided by insiders who were also making money from illegal trades based on inside knowledge.
In the wake of 9/11, many major prosecutions were put on hold.
