One of the court's fiercest critics, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, has expressed little confidence that Ms. Bensouda, whom he knows because of her work on the 1994 Rwanda genocide prosecutions, would expand the court's focus beyond Africa.
The case illustrates the ways the fields of hate crime and cybercrime prosecution are expanding.
A8 Yukos Prosecution Expanded Russian prosecutors expanded charges against a major shareholder in the Yukos oil company, one day after a group of shareholders made an offer in hopes of freeing him and two other imprisoned Yukos figures.
The bank records are considered critical to the prosecution because they expand the case against Mr. Estrada beyond allegations of kickbacks made by a provincial governor, Luis Singson.
They pointed to the Trump administration's moves to block asylum seekers and expand criminal prosecutions of parents who enter the country without authorization, which led to chaotic scenes of children housed in cage-like facilities and migrant camps along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Also, under the governor's proposals, background checks would be required for flight-school students and the permissible uses of federal wire taps in state terrorism prosecutions would be expanded.
While the Reagan administration pushed for expanded prosecutions, "we took a more … holistic look rather than demonizing people at a time when all of us kids were right there in some very impoverished surroundings," said Jill Louis, a "line sister" of Harris' when the two pledged the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in Harris' senior year.
Mr. Itri's firm has hired 28 patent lawyers and patent agents this year, adding roughly a dozen last month alone, as it seeks to expand its patent prosecution practice.
If the media demands for prosecution of the elite banking frauds expand there is a chance to create a bipartisan coalition in Congress and the administration supporting prosecutions.
It was as a supervisory assistant state's attorney from 1994 to 1997 that Mr. Morano established a state-wide gang prosecution unit and expanded the state's racketeering laws to address gang activity.
