Show Me the Man and I'll Find You the Crime (2018)
www.econlib.org

... The famous statement attributed to Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's secret police chief ("Show me the man and I'll find you the crime"), is the paradigmatic example of what the rule of law is not. ...

OpEd: "Show me the man and I'll find the crime"
joycevance.substack.com

... If you've been following the news since Friday afternoon, you know that Trump insisted that his own pick to be U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Seibert, be fired. Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: "I want him out." His crime? He declined to manufacture evidence to bring charges against Letitia James, the New York Attorney General who successfully went after Trump's company for fraud and is leading the charge on much of the litigation states' attorneys general are bringing against the second Trump administration. The office was also reportedly handling an investigation into former FBI Director Jim Comey and declined to prosecute that case as well. By the end of the week, Seibert had resigned, although Trump claimed he'd fired him. ...

A good OpEd, worth a read, imo.