matthewr
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That’s an interesting concept I hadn’t considered- that the prosecutor only requires a certain amount of hired help and after that the others get to stay inside the burning building. There must then be a point at which paid for legal advice says ‘you should step forward now to volunteer without being asked’.
Yes. That's basically how you do a mob case. Start at the bottom with some guy you have bang to rights. He then gets to flip on people the next level up, who then are bang to rights and get to flip on the next level, etc. etc. But at any one level your window to make a deal only lasts as long as the prosecutor needs you.
The adjunct to this is that someone like Manafort can either trade 1 from a level up (i.e Trump) but might also be able to trade 3 from the same level (Jared, Bannon and Prince) depending on where Mueller is in proving those cases.
The relevant Seth threads are here:
"What cooperation might mean"
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1040629762069291009
"Updates after it came out that Manafort had flipped, flipped"
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1040672291863060480
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1040675306779144192