The sheer number of charges they are facing has resulted in many expecting a massive punishment if they are found guilty, but Ornstein has revealed to talkSPORT that a lot of them are simply duplicates. Each year they are said to have breached one rule counts as a separate charge, which could affect the severity of their punishment, instead of infringing different regulations.
“A lot of the alleged offenses are repeat, so that’s helped inflate the number,” Ornstein said. “A lot of people go ‘wow, 115 separate charges’. That’s not the case. Because of the time span, it’s year after year of the same thing, including non-compliance and alleged inflating of sponsorships artificially with the help of their ownership being disguised.”