Is there any interpretation where he is not going down for all of the crypto ills? That the fraud was so straightforward, I expect the book to be thrown at him

Is there any interpretation where he is not going down for all of the crypto ills? That the fraud was so straightforward, I expect the book to be thrown at him to make an example. What more could he say at this point to make the situation any worse? His lawyers were surely telling him to stop shut up for the past two months and he didn’t listen then.