But when the judge asked him if he was pleading guilty, he responded: “I feel like I’m guilty.”
Marrero told him it was not a question of what he felt, but whether he was guilty.
“I’m guilty,” Guan responded.
In this case, it looks like the court wasn't questioning whether or not the funds he was handling were fraudulent, but whether or not he knew they were fraudulent, and that's much more subjective.