"No prosecutor would ever bring a case based on the facts as I know them."

If the government had possessed evidence to support such charges, she said, then prosecutors would have brought them.

But the crimes took place so long ago that prosecutors cannot bring charges.

Local prosecutors have brought criminal charges against all eight athletes.

If the judge rules that there is sufficient evidence, the prosecutor must bring the case to trial.

But once the prosecutor brings a case to trial, conviction is nearly a given.

However, a special prosecutor assigned to the case brought charges against 650 people, which did not result in convictions.

The problem is that prosecutors are not bringing about any indictments.

But federal prosecutors brought identity-theft charges against 148 of the workers.

Then the prosecutor can bring indictments with the approval of a judge.