Such an institutional reluctance to uncover corruption is not surprising.
The interim government installed by the military council has set up a new committee to uncover corruption from Mubarak's 30-year rule.
Prosecutors said yesterday that they have not uncovered any incidents of bribery or public corruption in the case.
With a staff of about 35 lawyers and investigators, the commission had been expected to uncover widespread corruption.
He was also to uncover political and police corruption.
The investigation uncovers corruption in the San Francisco police department.
Indeed, the commission found, the whole department showed a reluctance to uncover corruption.
Before his arrest, he was a reporter for a Florida newspaper that uncovered widespread corruption in the local government.
Others, though, have hit on the idea of public affairs, uncovering corruption and writing about environmental problems and social inequality.
Q. And was that also a large case with the potential to uncover precinct-wide corruption?