You’re rather strict.
He did nothing wrong, was threatened with jail and a half-million dollar fine. He HAD to settle. But it’s OK with me to appeal and reshuffle the deck when you’ve been so callously and asymmetrically wrong.
He didn’t willingly give his word—he was forced at the point of a legal gun.
No. That is not a correct statement, as it stands. He could have resisted. He could have let things get to the point where they took everything and he was thrown in jail. He could have died in a shootout. Technically, he did not "have to" roll on his back like a supine catamite and settle.
Somewhere somehow it is going to get to that point. Most American's would rather just roll on their back.