Total bull****.
And you're loaded to the hilt with it. If the government had a case, they'd have prosecuted Lee. Instead of trying him on the "evidence" they had, the feds tried to get him to plea-bargain as guilty and when he wouldn't, they tried to intimidate him into a confession by leaks to the media.
You might want to go back and review the incidents more closely as they transpired instead of carelessly crapping on a thread.