The 32-year-old's route back into the national team has been a tortuous process, involving face-to-face talks with management and senior players and a public show of contrition for his controversial behaviour.
The image that may well linger in the public mind is not of contrition, but of braggadocio in the face of a net that is inexorably closing in.
Mr. Donaldson, a former Wall Street banker himself, wrote a letter to Mr. Purcell describing concern over his "troubling lack of contrition," and reminding him that Morgan could face further legal problems if it denied the settled charges.
It shows him in his declining years, his hand on his heart and his face creased with sorrow as he begs for atonement, in an act of contrition that never took place.
Mr. Dimon, who will face shareholders at the company's annual meeting Tuesday, has been on a public campaign of contrition in recent days.
He sank to his hunkers, murmured an Act of Contrition in his dying rapist's ear and bashed in what was left of his face with the rock".
Public expressions of contrition abound.
So Marie performed her Act of Contrition.
His lack of contrition exacerbates its seriousness".
He is offering words of contrition.
