@GottaLaff Exactly. This is the whole point, or one of the points anyway, of conspiracy and RICO laws: they give prosecutors vast amounts of leverage over potential witnesses who might not otherwise want to testify. I'm a criminal defense guy, and as such I'm inclined to mentally frame that as "vastly too much leverage," but in this case I'm suppressing the urge.
I'm curious about the fate of Powell and Chesebro's law licenses. In California, anyway, you can be disbarred for even a misdemeanor conviction if it's for a "crime of moral turpitude," and what those two pled to sounds pretty darn turpitudinous to me. Fingers crossed on that one.
