And this time, the government has witnesses: four men who made plea-bargains last month and promised to testify against their friend.
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They include stiffer penalties managers guilty of market-rigging are now more likely to go to jail and the power to offer plea-bargains to whistle-blowers.
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Critics point out that most of the best-known terror convictions have been plea-bargains a hint, they say, that the government is on thin ice legally.
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