You're not telling the truth about this situation. Holder didn't like to try any corporatists. Mukasey got Uncle Ted convicted less than 90 days after his indictment. Ted knew the rules, as the former federal A.G. for Alaska. He knew it would be almost impossible to try him within the Constitutionally guaranteed 90 days from the indictment, because an available courtroom and a judge would be most unlikely to find. However the courtroom and Judge Sullivan did become available, so his speedy trial was initiated. He was convicted in just a few weeks of trial proceedings. The problem for the DOJ was   the extreme difficulty of going through mountains of evidence and providing Ted's attorney Sullivan, with all that was possibly exculpatory. In addition, the issue of Rocky Williams being sent home, instead of testifying for the defense, was nonsense as well. He was far too ill to be useful to anyone, and I predicted he'd be dead of liver failure in two weeks. He lasted six weeks, though.