Caroline Polisi on Manafort: Putting Him in Jail Will Put the Heat on Him in Terms of Flipping

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GALLAGHER: "Researchers say Manafort worked for the campaign for nearly five months, including three months as the campaign chair. The judge said she struggled with her decision to send Manafort to jail but she couldn’t come up with another way to stop potential tampering. She told the court this is not middle school. I cannot take his cell phone. We have Caroline here with us, a criminal defense attorney. The bottom line here, the judge made it clear this is not about, you know, Robert Mueller. It’s not about politics. The bottom line here is Paul Manafort is going to jail for the summer and could be longer. If there’s information that he has that could be detrimental to the president, now is the time for a deal?"
POLISI: "Putting him in jail will put the heat on him in terms of flipping. But this is a huge consequential decision. She didn’t have another choice because she had reprimanded Manafort before. We here about Constantine. He tried to help Manafort with this op-ed. She took him to task on that saying look, you’re not allowed to do this. You’re violating the gag order. He’s witness tampering, trying to tell these two associates of his that look, guys, we didn’t do lobbying work in the united States. Right? Everything that we did was in Europe. That’s just not going to fly. Manafort’s attorneys did a good job of saying that Manafort didn’t know who the potential witnesses would be so he couldn’t witness tamper. She was not buying that. I’ll say that this is really going to affect his ability to prepare for the two trials coming up. One in D.C., one in the eastern district of Virginia, this is a very big deal."