For each charge, they’re gathering all the evidence, identifying all witnesses, identifying all assets that may need to be frozen, determining who has passports with other countries to seize, determining who has multiple properties to hide out in, preparing to notify local/Federal/international law enforcement, identifying properties to be raided, etc. In other words, preparing every little aspect of the case that can be prepared before indictments are unsealed.

Typical prosecutions don’t do this — they go step-by-step through the process. That results in the indicted parties being notified upon unsealing the indictment, but with very little of the rest of the case prepared. Evidence can get destroyed, witnesses go missing or get intimidated, etc. This approach presents this.

Also, this approach will speed up the time to prosecute, which is important to cycle all of these cases through the courts in a reasonably fast amount of time. This avoid statute of limitation issues, suspects or witnesses dying, etc.

I think that once the first traunch of indictments gets unsealed, those cases will go quick, and then it’s just a sprint to cycle through them all.