Yeah, this changes the story a lot. Original headline makes it seem "this guy spoke up, then he's deported," it's more like "this guy was gonna be deported, he

Yeah, this changes the story a lot. Original headline makes it seem "this guy spoke up, then he's deported," it's more like "this guy was gonna be deported, he offered up what he knew in hopes they'd let him off." It seems like a major building collapse doesn't involve criminals operating in the shadows to the same extent as e.g. drugs, murder, etc. The architects, engineers, contractors, etc. are usually findable since they have to be licensed, there's a paper trail for everything because lots of filings have to be made for big construction, the "crime scene" (collapsed building) is basically impossible to alter / hide, and so on. So I'd say it's a fairly good guess this guy didn't know anything the prosecutors didn't.