"More importantly: I'm unclear on whether its author is US Attorney Carmen Ortiz or her deputy AUSA Stephen Heymann" Ortiz would have gotten all the positive,

"More importantly: I'm unclear on whether its author is US Attorney Carmen Ortiz or her deputy AUSA Stephen Heymann" Ortiz would have gotten all the positive, "tough on crime...saved us from big bad person...," press so let her get the other side. The buck stops at her, it's not like this wasn't a famous case, that she was unaware of it. However, if MIT (the "victim") had publicly said to forget it, USDOJ, politically, would have found it almost impossible to continue the trial and waste considerable resources.