Federal prosecutors are swamped by long and complicated digital trails outpacing the Justice Department’s technology. The flood of electronic evidence has slowed court proceedings and risks reducing the number of cases charged.
When the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan brought securities-fraud charges against executives of cable operator Adelphia Communications Corp. in 2002, its case involved one million pages of evidence. In the office’s recent case against Trevor Milton, theThe numbers are even higher in
stemming from the collapse of Archegos Capital Management LP, where prosecutors already have provided more than seven million pages of evidence to defense attorneys—after asking a court for a six-to-eight week window to produce the material.
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