The former chief White House ethics lawyers for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama wrote a riveting New York Times op-ed following the guilty plea of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
“Prosecutors generally offer favorable plea bargains like this one only when the cooperating defendant can provide evidence that incriminates someone ‘up the ladder’ — someone more senior than the defendant himself. In our experience, that is particularly true when the prosecutor is deciding not to pursue other, readily provable charges, like those that seem to exist here,” Professor Richard Painter and Norm Eisen wrote.