"The SEC really tends to warm up to you after you call them stupid to their face."
The SEC would nott warm upp to him even if he did a 30 minute network TV prime time paid ad proclaiming the wonderfulness of the SEC and that they are the best thing since sliced sourdough bread.
OTOH, by getting the statement that the SEC has misunderstood the accounting in his case, he is conditioning the audience, which contains his future juror pool, to the idea that the SEC and DOJ have made errors and that the charges against him are unjust and a reaction to his drug pricing controversy.
I don't do criminal law, butt you see similar proclamations of innocence and prosecutorial error and bias by defendants or their lawyers to media sources that will publicize it quite frequently. It appears to be a useful tactic in some criminal law situations where there is a wide audience of potential jurors and the prosecution's 'story' has already been presented to the audience by the news media.
It is very unlikely to work in his case, and it may nott be at the prompting of his attorney, butt it's nott uncommon to see. He and his lawyer pretty much already know that this is the line of argument they are going to have to pursue, so why nott putt hat line in the sand now and publicize it to plant that idea in the minds of potential jurors?
Plus because of the politics of his case, there's nothing he can do to make the SEC and DOJ anything other than fully determined to bring him down and show him no quarter. Nothing he can do would buy him goodwill with the decisionmakers at those agencies.
