Such deferred prosecutions are unusual in corporate criminal cases, but they are not unprecedented.
He's good at his job, and he understands the politics involved with corporate cases.
"If it was a corporate case, perhaps it would be substantially larger," he said.
He said he was working full-time as a lawyer, mainly on corporate cases, and lectured a few times a month.
Soon after passage of the General Corporation Law in 1899, the court began adjudicating significant corporate cases.
But in taking on corporate cases I do so only for the board or chairman.
In some corporate cases, the government has chosen to file indictments under seal while continuing their investigations.
But his bread and butter was corporate cases.
Some corporate cases become bogged down for years in complexity.
There has been a big corporate case but that's drawing to an end.