The reason this news is important and is being reported everywhere from Dealbook to the Wall Street Journal and back isn’t so much because Mr. Streeter is a great lawyer—he clearly is—but because of the subtext, which implies that everyone in this world, no matter how committed to the concept of justice they are, has a price. And Mr. Streeter, once another one of the Good Guys, and Protector Of The Interests Of The People, just cashed his in.