"The agreement doesn't say you get a reduction in sentence for telling the truth; you get a reduction in sentence for providing substantial assistance in the prosecution of another," he said, pointing at his client.
The Russian, who had her 2010 London Marathon victory annulled for doping, has had her ban reduced by seven months in return for providing "substantial assistance" to the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).
But he pointed out that immediately after the U.N. vote Bush hosted the heads of state of the G8 at Sea Island, Georgia, and they rebuffed his request for more substantial assistance.
In December, prosecutors told the judge that they would seek leniency in exchange for his "substantial assistance to the government in its investigation and prosecution of others" in the Madoff case.
"We believe that the proposed settlement appropriately sanctions the misconduct while giving due credit to Diamondback for its substantial assistance in the government's investigation and the pending actions against former employees and their co-defendants," George Canellos, the head of the S.E.C.'s New York office, said in a statement.
The authors thank Michaela Jahn for her excellent technical assistance, and Monika Bruisch, and Erwin Danklefsen for substantial help and support in field and greenhouse work.
The report states England 2018 also picked up the bill for a £35,000 gala dinner for Caribbean officials, provided "substantial assistance" for a training camp for an under-20 Trinidad and Tobago team in 2009, while Warner also asked for favours for his Trinidad football club Joe Public FC.
ELIGIBILITY To become eligible for benefits, patients must be expected to need "substantial assistance" for at least 90 days, either because they are suffering from a form of dementia, for instance, or because they can't perform two basic daily activities from a list of six, including items like bathing, getting dressed and eating.
It is shown that the application and integration of the knowledge-based expert system technology into numerical modelling for coastal processes can provide substantial assistance to novice users for selection of numerical model as well as parameters.
The six "limited exceptions" to the new rule include deals for defendants who supply "substantial assistance" to the government and (amazingly) deals aimed at sparing "particularly over-burdened" federal prosecutors' offices.
