Doesn't it seem odd that his legal team had extremely good indirect and circumstantial evidence - and even some direct evidence in the form of admissions and clearly incriminating statements from some of the bad actors - and that evidence essentially closed like a noose around the fraudsters…but somehow never got tightened?
The timing was not yet right.
Shot heard round the world
Depends on context
American Revolutionary War - the first shot of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts
World War I - Serbian Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, considered to be a precipatory event causing World War I.
Non-belligerent event - In baseball, the walk-off home run by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca to win the National League pennant on October 3, 1951.