"defenseless proceeding" is they're guilty as charged. They have no defense, 7 months ago he said 2015, 2016 and the first 3 quarters of 2017 were done.
"While the deregistration in not enviable", It should have been ...is not enviable... or .....is unenviable. He is trying to say the deregistration is undesirable.
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