CNN’s Toobin: Manafort and Gates Are in ‘Desperate Legal Trouble’

‘The sentences have gotten much higher in white collar crime in recent years, and the real question is whether either of them or both of them will want to plead guilty and cooperate’

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TOOBIN: "Oh, they are in desperate legal trouble. The sentences have gotten much higher in white collar crime in recent years, and the real question is whether either of them or both will want to plead guilty and cooperate. The other thing that’s quite clear from an indictment of this complexity, it’s 31 pages, is that it will not go to trial, if it goes to trial at all, probably for at least six months. That’s just how the pace at which the criminal justice system works in federal court. So that means the Mueller investigation will be going on at least through the middle of 2018 and perhaps much longer since these are just the first — the first charges that he’s brought. So this is not the beginning of the end of the Mueller investigation. This may only be the end of the beginning."

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