"We don’t know what the government is going to do. I mean, in both cases we’ve been told that there may be a superseder,”
I guess it’s hard to remain oriented what with the bus on top you.
Long as you’re aware that the bus is on top of you, you’re as oriented as the needle-dick pencil-dick at the wheel needs you to be.
Nice to see Judge Wood’s being mentioned. She was once nominated to be Attorney General.
I guess this is what it’s like when the prosecutor is “putting the screws to you.”
It sounds like they are putting on additional pressure to flip him or that they have written him off as being useful to the investigation and are going to throw the book at him to show everyone else still on the fence that they mean business. This one will be fun to watch.
If his Gates’ lawyer isn’t telling him to deal while the dealing is good, then it’s malpractice.
Finally, some good news. Keep on keeping on, Director Mueller.
I don’t think that holding a hearing on potential conflict of interests and having the respective clients acknowledge and be on the record about the conflicts is to be described as putting the screws or additional pressure on a defendant. I also think that it has always been perfectly conceivable that the Manafort Gates indictments could and would probably be superseded once the investigation into the Russia collusion part of the case is fleshed out.
In either event, I was a bit young and not living on the mainland when Watergate went from burglary to huge scandal. So, it will be interesting and probably fun at times to watch these cases, since we cannot count on congressional investigations like Watergate.
So I’m trying to understand the lawyer saying any of this except as a delaying tactic. If there’s a superseding indictment, unless Gates flips, it’s only going to have more (potential) conflicts than the previous one. Because prosecutors don’t typically narrow their charges without a quid pro quo.