Therefore, something else is obviously afoot. Bribes and payoffs are part of it. And as far as the Justice Department goes, it's becoming public knowledge that it is far better to be a guilty wealthy person than an innocent poor person. Trial has become an adversarial procedure. If prosecutors can get a conviction, they will.
Guilt has little to do with it anymore.
Government prosecutors have the full force, and treasury, of government to use to make their case. The Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency have been tasked with using their talents to spy on the American people and the people of the world for the benefit of the multinational concerns that contribute to the American political parties and candidates. Louie Freeh recently tried to get the FBI in on some of that via a request to Congress for more tax dollars under the guise of fighting online drug smugglers, spies and terrorists. Justice wants permission to completely trash our Fourth Amendment right of private communication. So, Freeh hit a few of the hot buttons of the authoritarians in Congress and will probably get the permission.