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I Lost My Chance to Cooperate—And Paid the Price

By the time the government came to me, they already had their case—thanks to my client, who got ahead of it and cooperated. I didn't. I lied. That lie cost me the chance to earn credit for cooperation. When my lawyer told me I could either plead or go to trial and lose, the plea deal on the table was five years. That phone call came 10 months after I thought I'd moved on. The press release didn't name me, but I knew who the "co-conspirator" was.

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