Cooperation mattered.

He did not receive some enormous movie-villain sentence.

He received probationary supervision with strict financial conditions, community service, restitution, and a suspended custodial component tied to compliance.

Enough to be serious.

Not fantasy.

His professional reputation suffered more than his physical freedom.

PART 43 — BEATRICE’S CASE

Beatrice’s exposure was narrower.

Prosecutors focused on specific transfers they believed she knowingly accepted from corporate funds and her role in communications around those transfers.

She negotiated separately.