On Monday, attorney general Eric Holder said the scheme had involved "hundreds of Credit Suisse employees, including at the manager level" and said more prosecutions were to come.
After the show was broadcast, Igor Bunin, the director of the Center for Political Technologies in Moscow, said he believed fighting corruption would "become one of the elements of the regime's ideology," and that more films — and more prosecutions — were on the way.
I pushed hard to clear out children's service managers who'd looked the other way and repeatedly challenged the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police until more prosecutions were made.
The most senior judge in England and Wales also warned about the possible dangers of more prosecutions being privatised as state funding is being cut for both the police and Crown Prosecution Service, writing: "There is an increase in private prosecutions at a time of retrenchment of state activity".
Particularly in large cities, many more criminal prosecutions are initiated than are feasible to try.
The execution of the convict, Juan Raul Garza, 44, was only the second by the federal government in nearly four decades, but in a sign that more capital prosecutions are likely to take place, Attorney General John Ashcroft has amended the Justice Department guidelines for United States attorneys.
Now a prominent defense attorney at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, White said she thinks calls from some quarters for more criminal prosecutions are unwarranted.
Europol has revealed that hundreds of players and officials are under suspicion, 14 people have been sentenced and more than 100 prosecutions are expected.
But those calling for more aggressive white-collar prosecutions are frustrated by the timing of the announcement.
What happened to the Colombs is far less sexy, but it's how such wrongful and excessive prosecutions are more typically resolved.
