Here’s another example of why smart prosecutors are so important:
Steve Rattner, started out at the NY Times, started his own hedge fund, and he is looking to make his fund bigger– make himself some money, naturally! So he uses an inducement to get some of the public pension money from the State Comptroller in NY for his fund…but there was a small, little problem… Now the prosecutor, Andy, he put the Comptroller in jail for taking the bribe, a felony conviction, and he put the middle man in jail for handling the bribe, a felony conviction, but Stevey, who started the ball rolling by paying the gratuity only had to cough up a little fine. Stevey didn’t go to jail and it worked out great because now he is recognized on all the cable news shows as one of America’s foremost financial experts…

And the prosecutor, he was recognized for his talents. He is now the Governor of New York.

Smart, all the way around.