See articleHugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, said his government may own as much as 48.5% of Globovisión, a television station that often criticises him, now that its owner has fled the country to avoid prosecution for business irregularities.
More than 16,000 housing violations were reported in the city during that particular month, with nearly 400 of them being turned over to criminal court for prosecution: serious business involving overt racial discrimination that C.O.R.E.
Corporations have long complained about their potential liability, especially because the Justice Department has ramped up prosecutions of business crime over the last 20 years.
University of Virginia law professor Brandon L Garrett conducted an exhaustive study of more than 2,000 criminal prosecutions of business organizations from 2000 to 2012, and published the results in his recent eloquently titled book Too Big to Jail.
Critics say the laws are tailor-made to help Mr. Berlusconi, who is Italy's wealthiest man, elude prosecution for questionable business deals made before he took office.
Nor do they accept attempts to undermine their privileged status, which includes a budget largely outside of civilian control, virtual immunity from prosecution and important business ventures linked to key parts of the economy.
But by 2005, a debate was growing over aggressive prosecutions, as some business leaders had been criticizing the approach as perhaps too zealous.
The threat of public exposure, with the resulting damage to professional reputations or the risk of prosecution, can stop businesses from making illicit deals or lessen the chances that foreign governments will look the other way, Mr Samore said.
He added that he would be "happy" to brief Cable on the progress of the investigation and the time scale of possible prosecutions if the business secretary contacted him directly rather than via the media.
His refusal, he later claimed, prompted a federal prosecution against him for business fraud.
