The regulators are also employing tools typically used to fight drugs and gang violence: investigators used wiretaps for the first time in the Galleon case.
From the ghetto gangfight over one player dissing another, to the corporate boardroom where one manager humiliates another, fights over respect can get really ugly.
His imprisonment followed his involvement in a fight with a rival gang just hours before rapper Tupac Shakur, who was signed to Death Row, was killed in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting.
In so doing, he forced Israel to fight a regional foe as if it were a local street gang and so rendered the ultimate result of that war - Israel's first strategic military defeat - a foregone conclusion.
In his force's fight against organised crime in Manchester, Sir Peter said it was often able to penetrate the top of a criminal gang by linking "foot soldiers" selling drugs or stolen goods to those running operations.