Comment Re:Why plea deal? (Score 1) 102
He probably could win, if he had a similar budget that the gov't spent on investigating and litigating him.
However, it is likely he was out of funds [or could see that he would be out of funds prior to the resolution of charges], and he would be tied up in court for years, so he chose the best way out, a resolution that gets his life going again in a year and probably with some money to do so.