Yeah, it's the difference between: "Your honor, as part of the settlement we admit to speaking with our auction competitor to agree not to outbid each other by

Yeah, it's the difference between: "Your honor, as part of the settlement we admit to speaking with our auction competitor to agree not to outbid each other by a geographically arranged scheme, in violation of the rules of the auction" versus: "Huh, our team loves to do funny things with numbers and has this habit of putting our area code in the last several digits of any bid for our record keeping purposes. Every time we did it, we won the auction, so we kept on doing it as a good luck charm!"