They had an office in Manhattan and customers in the US.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1323316... (Page 8)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1323316... (Page 8)
It wasn't an America bad argument, it was a global hegemony acknowledgement.
How do you read me talking about how almost everywhere is literally "irrelevant", my words, by all metrics and get an "America bad" argument out of it?
Could have just left that out.