We pleaded we didn't have the cash.

CNN: TRAPPED IN THE BIG SQUEEZE

We are told Tony Blair pleaded with Gordon Brown to call off Tom Watson MP from his crusade over the original hacking allegations.

BBC: Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy

Milken was ruthless and sometimes grasping, but we have seen no evidence that his legal transgressions were other than of the relatively technical variety to which he has pleaded guilty.

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