He is one of the highest-ranking former Mexican officials whom the United States has attempted to prosecute in many years.
The case was prosecuted in New Jersey because many of the fraudulent sales were made to a dummy company in Holmdel, N.J., called Molds, Dies and Novelties, which prosecutors said had been set up specifically to handle shipments of relatively worthless copper medallions and steel dies.
Hundreds of civilians have since been prosecuted in military courts, many of them university students. .
Monday's revelation from the Daily Telegraph that the government has abandoned its objections to the death penalty in the case of two alleged British jihadists so they can be prosecuted in the United States leads many of Tuesday's papers.
Will the councillor prosecuted in Brighton last year for suggesting many gay men were paedophiles, honestly recant his views as a result of his criminal conviction?
have not publicly explained their actions against the organization, the National Democratic Institute, which only recently was one of several nonprofits prosecuted in Egypt amid concerns about what many Egyptians perceive as foreign meddling.
When compared with crimes committed by juveniles or the poor, corporate crimes are very rarely prosecuted in the criminal courts, and, despite many well-publicized convictions of corporate leaders found guilty of wrongdoing, executives rarely go to jail, though some companies may pay large fines.
In the last decade, many train writers have been prosecuted in large scale operations by the British Transport Police (BTP).
Bennett's scammers were eventually caught and prosecuted in federal court in Alexandria, Va., but that took many years.
This does not mean that nothing illegal occurred, but it does help explain why many actions that appear so distasteful have not been prosecuted in the courts.
