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It is certainly going to set the defense scrambling to restructure some of their tactics.
Prosecutors have to show this was not simply bad management and bad judgment, but outright fraud. The only way to do that is with insiders.
It would be a mistake to confuse this with leniency. For these two former executives, even several years in a state prison will be a very long stretch of time.
The test will be the conversations. Prosecutors need to clearly spell out a disconnect ? between what was presented inside and what was said outside to the public.
When you look at how long the government has been preparing this case it is not surprising that they have not scrapped their plans and immediately embraced him as a critical witness.
The Government's only shot at convictions is to simplify this case.
Sometimes people feel they have no choice. It's their one chance to tell their own story.
There is a good possibility the judge will give them some additional time. But we're talking weeks instead of months.
Obviously they are taking a look at the evidence. They must be heavy into deliberations.
The jurors can determine that this is a 43-year-old man with three young daughters looking at a very long stretch in jail.
