Actually, no, I believed what he said at the time, which was that he did not directly pressure JWR to seek a deferred prosecution agreement. But I believed it likely he had tried to influence the decision in more indirect ways that skirted the limits of what would have been acceptable, and you notice he did not deny this. In the end, when all the evidence came out, that was the most likely account of what happened.
So bad analogy.
By those criteria the claim that the moon landings were faked is not a conspiracy theory.