Because only the rich are able to buy their way out of justice. No one wants to go to trial indeed.
(Unless it should be more, and then that DoJ will sue for the full amount.)
Are you suggesting we ought to let overpaid lawyers battle it out, then get fined $2.3M?
The prosecution tried to pull a fast one to get a jury trial by bundling a charge with monetary damages. Google's lawyers simply paid the claimed damages (tripled by law) and interest to remove the forced jury trial component in lieu of a bench trial.
Just to be clear, they are still going to trial for the antitrust charges.
Surely it's not paying overpriced layers to argue back and forth in a courtroom for years?
That's just sometimes prerequisite to get to the actual justice.