It allows the government to extract swift penalties from white-collar criminals and offer restitution to victims of fraud; since 2012, the Department of Justice has turned over more than $1.5 billion in forfeited assets to four hundred thousand crime victims, often in cases of corporate criminality.
"We will respond quickly to any issues that are identified and there will be swift penalties for any firm or individual found not to be putting consumers' interests first," Mr Wheatley added.
As always, Wall Street wants minimal government interference, figuring that the markets can mete out harsher, swifter penalties to offenders than Washington ever could.
Violators, whether they are pharmacists, doctors or clinic owners, face stiffer, swifter penalties if they prescribe or distribute legal narcotic drugs to people who do not need them or without following required steps.
There are experts who buy into the notion of behavior modification through swift, modest penalties.
Detailed requirements (Recommendation 1) need to be coupled with audit inspections by appropriate government agencies and certain and swift enforcement with severe penalties for noncompliance (McQuiston et al. 1998).
That was in 1999, the year after Tony Blair introduced the new penalty as a swift but immediately controversial way of handing down a penalty for relatively minor offences.
Both players were forced off for assessment for concussion and returned ten minutes later, with Sexton, sporting some swift stitches, kicking a further penalty that proved enough to keep Ireland out of reach despite France lock Romain Taofifenua scoring the game's only try.
Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center speculated that the resurgence of old methods of execution, like firing squad and electric chair, would seem so barbaric to the American public that it may actually help bring a swift end to the death penalty in the US.
Life without the possibility of parole is severe, swift and less costly than the death penalty and allows victims' families to move on with their lives and healing.
Argentina's response was swift, Batistuta winning and converting a debatable penalty five minutes later after being nudged off the ball by Daniel Prodan near the byline.
