RedCon1 founder Aaron Singerman enters plea agreement in Blackstone Labs case

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The first to plead and cooperate has the most to gain in terms of sentencing reduction. But when everyone else has already pleaded guilty and you wait until right before the trial to plead, you're chances of sentencing leniency are fucked.

Well, the government document you quote above states that they were willing to offer a three point reduction had he not rejected earlier plea offers, then it was a two-level reduction, but he got arrested twice more, and so now he agreed to cooperate and got the hammer.