The Colombian government agreed to a timeline by which they would take measures to protect unionists and step up the investigation and prosecution of trade-related violence.
Mr. Holder teased Mr. Bharara, who has led the government's prosecution of insider-trading crimes on Wall Street, about his becoming a media darling.
Richard Strong, a key target in New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's prosecution of improper trading in mutual funds, hasn't committed any crime, his lawyer said.
Criminal prosecution of insider trading, even when there is no body to jail, is the only practical way of getting people to think differently about the moral character of the conduct.
Six tons of illegal ivory was pulverized last year in the southern city of Dongguan, and Chinese courts have stepped up prosecution of illegal ivory trade.
Judge Rakoff has presided over the prosecution of several insider trading defendants, including Ms. Jiau.
Prosecutions of insider trading or securities manipulation in Europe rarely end in convictions; of the 44 cases filed in Zurich since 1996, only 4 have gone to trial, and only 2 resulted in guilty verdicts.
For that reason, I question Mr. Goldberg's criticism of Barack Obama for praising the successful prosecution of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Andrew McCarthy, the former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney who led the prosecution of the 1993 World Trade Center attacks, also gave a speech, declaring that Holder didn't "understand what rule of law has always been in wartime".
The charges against Mr. Martoma are at the center of the government's insider-trading prosecution of SAC.
In the insider trading prosecution of Mathew Martoma and SAC Capital Advisors, the government agreed not to pursue charges against Dr. Sidney Gilman, a former University of Michigan doctor who admitted to tipping off Mr. Martoma about the poor results of a drug trial before the firm traded.
