Unimpressed with the government's response, the court threatened criminal prosecutions of four ministers.
Mr. Bledsoe said the county financed the prosecutions of "four or five" murders last year.
But the Crown Prosecution Service has finally acknowledged the fact by abandoning the prosecutions of nine journalists arrested by the Metropolitan police.
The scandal led to the resignations, but not prosecutions, of two top Lockheed officials; the resignation of a Dutch prince from his military and business positions; and the conviction of a Japanese prime minister.
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who as the United States attorney in Chicago oversaw the prosecutions of two Illinois governors and a former Bush administration White House aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., is joining Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
In addition to the insider-trading cases, Bharara's office saw remarkable achievements in the realm of public corruption, leading to successful prosecutions of two of the most powerful politicians in New York State: Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the State Assembly, and Dean Skelos, the State Senate majority leader.
According to an article in The Guardian, they are trying to put past issues behind them, such as the high-profile criminal prosecutions of two Bitcoin entrepreneurs, the suspension of trading on the second-largest Bitcoin exchange, and volatile pricing, and move forward with a focus on finding common regulatory ground to stimulate wider adoption.
The affair came to light during a prosecution of three police officers on charges of blackmailing Ms. Khashoggi.
Eventually, the prosecutors decided that there were fourteen suspicious ballots, and Sessions led the prosecution of three voter-registration activists who became known as the Marion Three.
Watson was praised by the Met's deputy assistant commissioner, Steve Rodhouse, during the committee hearing for helping to bring about the successful prosecution of three paedophiles.
