The large numbers of fast-track prosecutions represent a substantial extra expense, but the program's supporters say it generally targets foreigners with serious criminal records who are likely to commit more crimes.
He conceded that crime rates have been declining around the country, but he said he said he believed that the fast-track prosecutions had been a major contributing factor.
"The corporate crime defense bar has this down to a science," said Russell Mokhiber, the editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, a publication that tracks prosecutions.
Ten of those suspects were arrested and detained this week, after being charged with money laundering and participation in a criminal organization — offenses that warrant fast-track prosecution.
The cases were divided when Medici requested a "fast-track" prosecution under rules that allow shorter sentences in speedier trials.
U.S. border authorities, in a significant escalation of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, are planning to introduce a fast-track prosecution program to criminally charge more people who cross the border into California illegally, according to attorneys in San Diego.
Sergeant Bales's lead lawyer, John Henry Browne, called the Army's decision to move ahead on what appears to be a fast track of prosecution "understandable but totally irresponsible".
We track the prosecution's responsibility to confront a criminal defendant with evidence sufficient to warrant a conviction, the defendant's right to test the prosecution witnesses by cross-examination, and the interrelated roles of judge and jury in reaching a fair guilty verdict in a fair trial.
"The degree to which the government seems to have led on the defendants is much more aggressive than we have seen in other cases," said Karen J. Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law, which tracks terrorism prosecutions.
From there he hopes that regulators and watchdog groups can fund and pursue more aggressive tracking and prosecution policies to wipe detrimental products out of the market faster and make the business costly for no-goodniks.
London is Europe's biggest financial centre, yet the track record of prosecutions here is patchy.
