The record starts with what sounds like a public-service announcement, or a warning.
The announcement follows a warning last week by Citi's rival JP Morgan that 4,000 jobs could be lost if the UK voted to leave the EU.
Flybe's announcement follows a warning last month that profits for the year would be significantly lower than investors expected because of a softening in the market – in part because of uncertainty surrounding the Brexit process.
Crewe's announcement followed a warning from a senior police chief that a large number of alleged victims of child sex abuse in football have yet to break their silence and that the growing scandal could also engulf other British sports.
"No one is above the law, so let today's announcement be a warning to those who may try to perpetrate a similar scheme that the FBI will aggressively pursue those who attempt to bribe foreign officials for an unfair advantage in the global marketplace," he added.
One defence expert here in Moscow said he believed the announcement was a warning to Nato not to help Georgia build up its fledgling air force.
Spain was pushed to accept a bailout of up to $125 billion to help its banks on Saturday, but the country's borrowing costs have gone up, not down, since the aid announcement, a dire warning sign of how little investors trust Europe.
Smith views the latest announcements as a warning.
The announcements are a warning shot to the league's 430-plus players, a reminder that they are losing hundreds of millions of dollars.
"Today's announcements are a warning to every trafficker, every crooked doctor or pharmacist, and every drug company, every chairman and foreign national and company that puts greed before the lives and health of the American people: this Justice Department will use civil and criminal penalties alike, and we will find you, put you in jail, or make you pay," Sessions said.
