I agree with you, that they just lessen their chances of the investigation being dropped, etc. and that it makes no sense for them to continue on this way BUT ONLY IF as you say the device is fictitious. If however they do have a device that does heat water, as I tend to believe is the case, but that just doesn't have a chance of becoming the marketable products they have claimed, then continuing on makes much sense to me along the lines that n1tr08urner explored/outlined (i.e. facing jail, delay at all costs, and along the way perhaps build a case that they are not fraudulent).
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