You expected what? Justice? You mean to tell me you expected politically connected people to get into deep shit?
plus one!!!! No body with money in there family ever has to deal with the results of there actions. A million dollar laywer sees to that. LoL that they even call it a JUSTICE system.
Actually, I think a plea deal this late in the game indicates that they were looking at some convictions. Otherwise, they could have worked out a deal early on.