Leak cases have long been difficult to investigate and prosecute, though that task has become easier in recent years as a result of communications technology, like e-mail, that can show which officials, among hundreds who might have had access to certain information, were in contact with a reporter.
Of the 25 people prosecuted by the task force, 7 have pleaded guilty in connection with fund-raising during Mr. Torricelli's successful Senate campaign in 1996, when he was a congressman representing Bergen County.
The NSW WestConnex minister, Stuart Ayres, is now faced with the tricky task of prosecuting the case for continuing with the project.
In early May he wrote to the court explaining that his country's legal system was not equal to the task of prosecuting the most serious crimes of recent months.
The proposal would ease what has come to be recognized as the government's difficult task of prosecuting men who have confessed to terrorism but whose cases present challenges.
The spokesman said tax evasion was wrong and the HMRC has been clamping down on any instances that could be prosecuted, but added the task of government ministers was to set the legal framework and it was for the Crown Prosecution Service to make decisions on whether court action should be taken.
(If we don't then why aren't the streets full of angry protests?) But for the very people whom we employ and task with prosecuting such behaviour to collude in "sweetheart" deals that let perpetrators walk away with a 10% bill and guaranteed anonymity, while neatly paving their way for a post-HMRC career with the facilitators of the crime, is a sign that the system is no longer fit for purpose.
However, this leaves the MPAA with the arduous task of prosecuting single users one at a time, a prospect that is both expensive and, as some of the musicians complaining about Napster are finding, bad for public relations.
He gave Cardinal Wolsey the task of prosecuting his case; Wolsey began by consulting university experts.
Postal inspectors videotaped Bond spreading the strange orange substance on the lover's mailbox, and the task of prosecuting Bond fell to federal officials, who invoked a legal provision enacted as part of the U.S. ratification of the Chemical Weapons Treaty.
C1 More Indictments on the Way Prosecutors are preparing to bring a wave of criminal indictments for accounting gimmickry or securities fraud nine months after President Bush named a federal task force to prosecute corporate fraud.
