Nothing happened for five months.

Then an assistant United States attorney named Theodora Brandt issued grand jury subpoenas, which is the first sign anybody outside gets that a case is alive, and then nothing happened for another four months.

Twenty-two months elapsed between the referral and the day Julian Vance stood up in a federal courtroom.

I want to put the reasons here, because for the first year I believed the delay meant nobody cared.

Financial cases are slow because the government does not charge them until it can prove them on paper to a certainty.