Is the prospect of prison time enough to crack Roger Stone?

The Spectator ^ | October 22, 2018 | Jacob Heilbrunn

[detective]

Robert Mueller is getting stoned. Not in any corporeal sense, I hasten to note. Rather, his investigation appears to be focusing on any ties that the Trump campaign may have had to the voluble former Nixon operative Roger Stone. Like Michael Cohen, who once proclaimed that he would take a bullet for Donald Trump, Stone is now noisily professing his loyalty to the president. ‘The special counsel pokes into every aspect of my social, family, personal, business and political life, seeking something — anything — he can use to pressure me, to silence me and to try to induce me to testify against my friend Donald Trump,’ Stone declared in a recent video. ‘This I will not do. When I say I won’t roll on the president, what I mean is I will not be forced to make up lies to bring him down.’ But will he prove any more loyal than Cohen, or, for that matter, his old chum Paul Manafort, if faced with a few years in the hoosegow?

Manafort has been reduced to a wheelchair, quite a comedown from the days when he strolled around Washington in pricey bespoke Italian habiliments. Stone, like Manafort, is a devotee of bespoke attire, though he seems to favour English clothing — specifically, the venerable masters of the drape cut, Anderson & Sheppard — which may come as something of a relief to readers of The Spectator. My guess is that if anything might persuade Stone to crack, it would be the prospect of having to exchange his fancy duds for prison garb

[kabar]

Mueller will then offer him a deal if he makes up false charges against Trump.

That is called suborning perjury. I don't think he will be successful. It hasn't worked on anyone else.

[motor_racer]

So called “prosecutorial discretion” and plea bargaining should be outlawed. If something is against the law, every violator should be prosecuted. If its not that important, it shouldn’t be against the law. And plea bargaining is just witness bribery. The prosecutor threatens them with charges that would bankrupt them to defend against, or offers them a deal if they will “cooperate”. This is bribery of the worst kind, because the government has essentially unlimited resources to ruin people. Mueller is the poster child for totalitarian “justice”.

[houeto]

I think some props are in order.

And 'props' is short for.....what?

[babble-on]

Proper respects