The Justice Department has responded by asking Congress for more money to prosecute such cases and urging United States Attorneys to make those prosecutions a high priority.
For one thing, the prosecution of a high official like a governor is nearly always undertaken under the watchful eye of Justice Department officials in Washington, former government lawyers say.
But other requirements are much tougher, like a substantial increase in the amount of money the state must recover from Medicaid fraud prosecutions, a target much higher than the amount any state has recovered to date.
They said, for example, Saudi Arabia was now taking actions that they had long hesitated to take or had resisted, including holding financiers accountable through prosecutions and making terrorist financing a higher priority.
In June 2017, State Attorney Nitzan said there had been a "significant increase" in social media incitement prosecution, in two key respects: a higher volume of investigations, indictments, and requests for detention; and an increase in the severity of the punishments handed down.
First the corruption trial of Bo Xilai, a Politburo member whose son, the prosecution alleged, enjoyed a high-rolling lifestyle in the West.
The Independent focuses on why an obviously troubled child and dubious witness was ever allowed to form the mainstay of the prosecution in such a high profile case.
During his tenure in private practice, Shechtman has represented the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in a complex federal investigation of the city's water treatment facilities; was trial counsel for a Mexican national in a Southern District insider trading prosecution; and defended a high-level manager charged with committing health care fraud and obstruction of justice.
Two and a half years after a historic crisis that has yielded not a single criminal conviction of anyone who played a leading role in causing it, the prosecution of such a high-profile Wall Street executive may satisfy the public's desire to see culprits brought to justice.
The Crown Prosecution Service published guidelines in the summer on prosecutions involving social media and it set a high threshold for prosecution.
