Congratulations! That's probably the most idiotic and ill-conceived statement I've read on FreeRepublic in a long time. You want to paint every prosecutor in the country with a brush of incompetence because of one guy?! Rudy successfully went up against the heads of all five of New York's major crime families, won high-profile convictions of white-collar culprits such as Clinton buddy Marc Rich, junk bond trader Michael Milken and Wall Street insider Ivan Boesky. You'd know this if you'd bothered to do any homework at all.
Much of the anti-Rudy rhetoric on FR is just plain idiotic (like the "gun-grabbing" comments -- nobody is threatening to take away your precisious little gun), but you win the prize today.
Milken was basically run through the wringer for being an extremely smart, shrewd financier who found -- and took advantage of -- many loopholes in SEC regulations governing the bond market.
A good way to make this point would be to find a typical person with an informal understanding of the case and ask him/her what crimes Milken committed. The lack of a clear answer on this is very telling.
BRAVO!