Plea deals are risk calculations - for both the government and the accused. For the accused, you weigh limiting your downside risk (longer prison sentence) against admitting to something you didn't do. And the government weighs possibility of losing at trial against securing an earlier but lesser conviction. But these pleas don't change the fact that the DOJ misinterprets Section 1960 whenever they accuse a noncustodial software dev of "transferring funds on behalf of the public." And they don't change the work we have to do: making sure the DOJ cannot continue to misapply this law.