And that was, you know, our term, you know, our, our kind of inside term for deferred prosecution. And, and basically what it meant was that they would not be prosecuted even though they were guilty of the crime. They wouldn't be prosecuted.
They would pay fines and they would be, you know, there'd be certain parameters that they would have to operate under. In other words, they couldn't, you know, do certain things they couldn't, whether it was, you know, just depends on what the crime was.
SourceThen you go down to US attorney's office and you'd be told that. And then it was offered basically we used to call it a get out of jail free card.
The agents, we were never involved in this decision. So we would work our butts off for months or years to make our case. And then we would be just surprised by Oh yeah, we offered them. And we're like, excuse me, what? How did this happen?
And so. I cannot tell you why. I, can't tell you why we didn't know why. We were just told this is how it's gonna be. And, I don't know.
No, and I also looked up because you know, I'm thinking about I was literally in my mind, I'm going OK, I was at where when and I now I was in California office in the 90s and I can I can think of how much examples and not Enron level, but you know, cases like that that were offered deferred prosecution. You know, it was in the 90s and I remember.