Here are the stats on Corruption:
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION (Fiscal Year 2008)
• 539 cases filed against 802 defendants–case filings increased by 14 percent
• 468 cases against 775 defendants terminated–case terminations decreased by three percent
• 695 defendants convicted
• 90 percent conviction rate
• 61 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison
• 32 percent of prison sentences greater than three years
• 16 percent of prison sentences greater than five years
Here is the source, the United States Attorney's Statistical Report 2008 (FY):
http://justice.gov/usao/reading_room/reports/asr2008/08statrpt.pdf
Here is an interesting quote about the US Attorney's role in Federal Government:
The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer. He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor -- indeed, he should do so. But, while he may strike hard blows,he is not at liberty to strike foul ones. It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one.
Quoted from the Statement of Mr. Justice Sutherland in Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 88 (1935)
Thanks to reader Eugenious for sending this link. ◦
