This is not a completely novel situation. Criminality is often shielded by large organizations, and clever lawyers have come up with clever strategies for dealing with it. For example, in the early 20th century, prosecutors resorted to pretextual indictments to go after the mob—the tax-evasion case against Al Capone being the most famous such prosecution. Because prosecutors could not scrape together evidence of his core crimes, Capone was convicted first of contempt of court and then of tax evasion.