Yep. Once you are caught and cannot get away there is no reason to fight the system. In fact, you are most likely to make things much easier for yourself to become the new system’s agent rather than hold out for a bunch a pricks that never gave a shit for you anyway. Become useful fast and ingratiate yourself - particularly in JeffEp’s case. He’s no idealog or religious zealot.  Also, he is small potatoes or the tip of the iceberg concerning these matters. He’s the door into the larger room. He knows it. He is now the liberated DOJ’s useful idiot...or legally speaking a RICO case.  The agent(& info he’s gathered) is useful to the handler - who is JeffEp’s handler now? Who controls the blackmail material now?  This is why Q says, “PANIC PANIC PANIC.”