We should not underestimate, however, the difficulty of prosecuting high-ranking officials in large corporations.
Working with the panel, Guatemalan prosecutors had begun to make headway in prosecuting high-profile officials for corruption.
On a positive note, the report said Congo's government took "unprecedented steps" including prosecuting high-ranking officers for sexual violence and paying reparations to survivors.
The federal government is quite aware that it has a flawed track record when it comes to investigating and prosecuting high-profile athletes accused of crimes related to performance-enhancing drug use.
One of the toughest challenges of prosecuting high-profile cases, he said, is that so many of the early moves show up in public before the trial begins, which can endanger fairness at trial.
"Legally speaking, I think it's significant because the reason for prosecuting high-profile tax cases is for the deterrent effect," said James R. DeVita, who was the lead prosecutor in the Helmsley case.
Nichols, the longtime lawyer and business manager of Jones's, made a phone call to Joseph Burton, a former assistant United States attorney who made his name prosecuting high-tech industries.
That legislation can punish the actions of lower-level mining operators, like shift foremen, but has a limited scope for prosecuting high-level company officials, said Tony Oppegard, a Kentucky lawyer who represents miners and a former prosecutor of mine-safety violations for the state.
CHICAGO — Edward V. Hanrahan, a former Cook County state's attorney who built his reputation by prosecuting high-profile criminals only to see his political career derailed by a deadly police raid on Black Panthers in 1969, died Tuesday in River Forest, Ill.
But Nigeria's anti-corruption agencies have a very poor record at successfully prosecuting high-level fraud.
"Rudy the Lion"–as he was nicknamed by French newspapers in the harrowing days following Osama bin Laden's Sept. 11 attacks–once was a U.S. attorney in Manhattan, building his rep prosecuting high-profile insider-trading cases and other financial crimes.
