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We may as well plead guilty.
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"If that's the Peruvian law, regardless of the mitigating circumstances, then you are as well pleading guilty rather than defending that to the nth degree and be sitting there with 15 years that you're trying to appeal and reduce.
The Libor submitter Peter Johnson, 61, of Tunbridge Wells, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud in October 2014.
The Well pleads for the "invert's" right to existence.
"How?" He said, "Well, you plead not guilty and she pleads guilty".
It sometimes backfires, but if you have nothing else to lose, you might as well try pleading with the principal.
It is the persistent, if well intentioned, pleading, mixed with first incomprehension and then indignation at even the polite hint of a no-thank-you.
BNP is looking at paying a fine several times that amount, as well as pleading guilty to a felony (as Crédit Suisse had to do when it paid a $2.6 billion fine in May for helping Americans escape US taxes) and losing, presumably temporarily, the ability to clear dollar transactions for its customers, which means losing the customers.
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