Turning to each in turn, Werlein asked: "How do you plead to the charge set forth in the indictment - guilty or not guilty?" In a clear voice, Bermingham replied: "Guilty, sir".
To each count Eichmann pleaded, "In the sense of the indictment, not guilty".
But executives believed such an admission would be as harmful as an indictment or guilty plea.
Throughout the trial, Eichmann tried to clarify, mostly without success, the point in his plea of his being "in the sense of the indictment, not guilty".
The company's former chief accounting officer, Scott D. Sullivan, who was also named in the indictment, pleaded guilty and said he would cooperate with prosecutors.
Mr. Morris, who was charged last year with a 123-count indictment, pleaded guilty to a single felony count of violating the Martin Act, a sweeping state securities law, and could be sentenced to as much as four years in prison, though no prison sentence is mandatory.
Not permitted to present a lengthy statement, Göring declared himself to be "in the sense of the indictment not guilty".
Only Digby, tried on a separate indictment, pleaded guilty, insisting that the King had reneged upon promises of toleration for Catholics, and that affection for Catesby and love of the Catholic cause mitigated his actions.
Every new development in Robert Mueller's investigation is covered extensively and dissected endlessly on Twitter and cable news, with each indictment and guilty plea of a Trump associate representing another link in a chain that we assume or hope will lead to Donald Trump himself.
There have been indictments and guilty pleas.
