"The department is committed to aggressive investigation and prosecution of corporate wrongdoing".
Under British law, individuals can been arrested as part of continuing investigations, though they might not face eventual prosecution for wrongdoing.
In the last few years, the Justice Department has turned more and more often to "deferred prosecutions" to get companies suspected of wrongdoing to pay fines and change their practices without being charged criminally.
It also takes aggressive use of legal tools to prosecute misconduct, including admissions of wrongdoing, clawbacks of ill-gotten pay, sanctions for management failure to supervise, nondeductible penalties and criminal prosecutions, where warranted.
Several months earlier, however, lawmakers had quietly passed a law that allowed people suspected of wrongdoing to avoid prosecution if they repaid the money they were accused of stealing in certain crimes.
Armed with what it says is new evidence of wrongdoing in the prosecution of Cameron Todd Willingham, the Innocence Project on Friday will ask Gov. Rick Perry to order the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to investigate whether the state should posthumously pardon Mr. Willingham, whose 2004 execution has become a lightning rod of controversy over the Texas justice system.
A paragraph in the German criminal code allows for trials to be ended under conditions that are "appropriate for resolving the public interest in a prosecution", as long as the gravity of wrongdoing does not outweigh doing so.
A paragraph in the German criminal code allows for trials to be ended under conditions that are "appropriate for resolving the public interest in a prosecution," as long as the gravity of wrongdoing does not outweigh this.
The S.E.C.'s own data suggests that the agency has put increasing emphasis on using non-criminal means, like civil fines and what are known as deferred prosecution agreements, in dealing with allegations of wrongdoing.
The cameras are usually lauded as effective ways to prevent police brutality, discourage use of force, and facilitate prosecution if the officer is accused of wrongdoing.
