There is a cost to tying up investigative and prosecutorial resources. ProPublica got the data: “In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases.” You can make time for cases like Liam Ramos’ when you abandon public corruption prosecutions. Apparently, this DOJ did.