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Preet Bharara says Manafort will likely "flip" on Trump to avoid "substantial prison sentence"
Preet Bharara says Manafort will likely ‘flip’ on Trump to avoid ‘substantial prison sentence’
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/ex-us-attorney-preet-bharara-says-manafort-will-likely-flip-on-trump-to-avoid-substantial-prison-sentence/
Speaking with host Fareed Zakaria, the veteran prosecutor admitted that he had little in the way of inside knowledge of Mueller’s massive investigation into Russian involvement in the Trump campaign, but he explained the strategy behind Mueller’s blockbuster announcement earlier last week.
“Tell me about Manafort, because a lot of people including the president of the United States say this has nothing to do with collusion,” host Zakaria began. “This is money laundering, it was a while ago. Is Robert Mueller doing this as a way to squeeze Manafort to get him to be more cooperative on issues of collusion?”
“The first thing to remember is that Robert Mueller is a prosecutor’s prosecutor,” Bharara replied. “He’s a professional, he’s been doing this for a long time. In the same way that we used to do it in our office, the first thing you do is hold people accountable for crimes that they commit. If there’s evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that you can prove to a jury, like they believe they can here, they bring it.”
“A consequence of that can be if there are other charges they want to bring against someone else. Maybe Paul Manafort will, in the parlance we use in law enforcement, ‘flip.’ Sometimes that happens before a charge is brought like what looks like happened last week with George Papadopoulos. Investigators will make an approach, say ‘we have good evidence against you,’ and they probably did that with Papadopoulos and he said okay and cooperated.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/ex-us-attorney-preet-bharara-says-manafort-will-likely-flip-on-trump-to-avoid-substantial-prison-sentence/
Speaking with host Fareed Zakaria, the veteran prosecutor admitted that he had little in the way of inside knowledge of Mueller’s massive investigation into Russian involvement in the Trump campaign, but he explained the strategy behind Mueller’s blockbuster announcement earlier last week.
“Tell me about Manafort, because a lot of people including the president of the United States say this has nothing to do with collusion,” host Zakaria began. “This is money laundering, it was a while ago. Is Robert Mueller doing this as a way to squeeze Manafort to get him to be more cooperative on issues of collusion?”
“The first thing to remember is that Robert Mueller is a prosecutor’s prosecutor,” Bharara replied. “He’s a professional, he’s been doing this for a long time. In the same way that we used to do it in our office, the first thing you do is hold people accountable for crimes that they commit. If there’s evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that you can prove to a jury, like they believe they can here, they bring it.”
“A consequence of that can be if there are other charges they want to bring against someone else. Maybe Paul Manafort will, in the parlance we use in law enforcement, ‘flip.’ Sometimes that happens before a charge is brought like what looks like happened last week with George Papadopoulos. Investigators will make an approach, say ‘we have good evidence against you,’ and they probably did that with Papadopoulos and he said okay and cooperated.”
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