Courtney
Thank you for your posts. These “chats” with AOCs are your equivalent of the ones I had with my 2 Stars, when instructed to commit fraud by making false declarations about airworthiness and financial probity. They are closely related because, as Nut Loose says, their intent was to conceal the truth thereby placing aircrew at risk. I suspect if we drew up lists of names there would be much commonality!
Well done indeed.