With [computer] software, casual copying was lessened by a combination of education efforts and evolving, maturing business models, with some exemplary prosecutions of large-scale piracy.
But this is where a much longer-running, far sicker joke is poised to kick in – the one known as federal criminal prosecution of large-scale financial malefactors.
These findings together with the development of modern methods and techniques allowing the prosecution of large-scale association studies have evolved the studies of complex disorders from the candidate-gene approach to the genomewide association study (GWAS).
It would focus on the quality of enforcement in order to increase tax collection, including the number of prosecutions against large businesses and high-net-worth individuals.
But use of the "sledgehammer" seems to have largely disappeared, so that a full-scale prosecution of a large corporation is at best a rarity.
And yet, the government's "use of the 'sledgehammer' seems to have largely disappeared, so that a full-scale prosecution of a large corporation is at best a rarity".
Mr. Khodorkovsky insists his arrest and the prosecution of other large Yukos shareholders are politically motivated.
An indictment against a hedge fund like SAC, however, would not destabilize the financial system the way that a prosecution of a large bank potentially could.
Last week, Frank accused Sanders supporters of engaging in McCarthyism by suggesting that politicians, and Clinton in particular, are influenced by big money contributions from wealthy backers, and as a result, did not push for prosecutions of the executives of large banks.
There have been very few prosecutions and no criminal convictions of large US financial institutions or their senior executives.
Indeed, on average, federal prosecutions of foreign companies involve far larger fines than prosecutions of similar domestic ones.
