[fennecfoxen]

The SEC began its investigation in late January, after the arrest and months-long fishing expeditions by Japanese prosectors (and two or three different announcements about crimes they had found, the latter of which dismissed the earlier theories).

The Japanese prosecution is easily 100% political; any actual crimes they found are pure coincidence. As for myself, I am much more upset by a corrupt and politicized judiciary in charge of a major first-world nation than I am by dubious business deals, just one case of the many they will handle.

(And further note that Ghosn was while still in jail in Japan while he settled with the SEC, with very little access to his lawyers... and, of course, no trial date set, because who needs a "right to a speedy trial" anyway?)