In a Sportsblog.com poll, 95 percent of the 293 current and former N.F.L. players who responded said they thought the N.F.L. "got off cheap" in the settlement.
As for Dadlani, who the lawsuit said "acted intentionally, maliciously, oppressively, and with willful, callous, wanton, and reckless disregard," he got off cheap.
The bakers got off cheap.
In the case of Ronaldo, Nike got off cheap.
Ratepayers thought they could get off cheap by letting the market take over and dole out electricity.
Meanwhile, Jay Handal, co-chairman of the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates, said he thought "the city got off cheap" in light of the stress suffered by overbilled customers.
This wink-wink allows the government to get off cheap, while acknowledging that access selling and interest peddling are part of the deal.
"I was told that they could help me save more than they charged me for the services". Arguably, she got off cheap--Affordable Life typically charges $49.99 a month, according to a lawsuit the Illinois Attorney General filed last year charging Broadsword with fraud and with using Affordable, a sister company, to charge fees that would otherwise be barred by Illinois' Debt Settlement Act.
"With this settlement, Microsoft gets off dirt cheap, and it helps Microsoft perpetuate its monopoly," Eugene Crew, a partner of Townsend & Townsend & Crew, a law firm in San Francisco, told The New York Times.
