Dude... No one said transfer illegally. Plenty of options to manage data transfer and authorization that doesn't come with a deadline.
There was literally 2-3 people left at EME and they were there to make sure transfers went smoothly. If I recall, Single.Bear said he was the last person out the door before it was just those 2-3 working remotely to make sure we could migrate correctly, and even then one or two of the remaining three were done working at EME leaving one person the last week of migration to make sure it went to GF's servers safely and correctly.
You're just making excuses at this point. Every possible reason has been given. All you can do now is accept responsibility, man. What's done is done. There was nothing else. You cannot transfer data over-seas unless you have explicit permission from the people who the data is about; you. Maisee already covered the time-frame, and that was plenty enough.