old news to many anons. I was digging back thru on the sealed indictments stuff and i was reading over the fed document on sealed indictments from 2009.

“The three principal reasons for sealing a criminal case, accounting for 65% of the sealed criminal cases in this research, are (1) sealing the indictment so as to not tip off the defendant un- til the defendant’s apprehension, (2) protecting the identity of a juvenile defendant, and (3) keep- ing secret details of a cooperating defendant’s prosecution. ”

sauce - http://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/sealed-cases.pdf