You have to get a couple convictions under your belt to prove the bigger conspiracy. If you can prove a couple small fish conspired/colluded and broke the law and it leads in a direction toward a bigger conspiracy, you use the smaller cases to prove the bigger case.

You have to get a couple convtions under your belt to prove the bigger conspiracy. If you can prove a couple small fish conspired/colluded and broke the law and it leads in a direction toward a bigger conspiracy, you use the smaller cases to prove the bigger case.