From the article comments: > Add to this fatuous criminal charge the sad reality that the process is often the punishment. Even after Mr. Left's innocence gets

From the article comments: > Add to this fatuous criminal charge the sad reality that the process is often the punishment. Even after Mr. Left's innocence gets determined by a jury, there's the strong possibility that he'll depart the courtroom to go home to the Poor House. > See: Wall Street Journal 8 November 2015 > I Was an Oil Spill Scapegoat -- I helped cap the Deepwater Horizon well, The Justice Department then turned my life into a legal nightmare > -- Kurt Mix, BP drilling engineer, who published a blistering commentary about the US Justice Department immediately following a major revision to the case. After two years of expensive, life-upending dealings, all of the felony charges got dropped, and, "I would plead guilty to a minor misdemeanor for deleting a set of text messages without BP’s permission—something I had acknowledged doing from the very beginning." > Good luck Mr. Left... I thought this was interesting on went down the BP prosecution rabbit hole.