Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to provide new details Friday on how President Donald Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, or his ex-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, helped or hurt his investigation into Russian collusion, and Alan Dershowitz said he's interested in learning about what they were offered to talk.
"How much will they reveal about Cohen's cooperation?" the Harvard Law professor emeritus told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "It's so ironic. People complain all the time that President Trump may have dangled pardons in front of people and that constitutes tampering with witnesses and bribery. Think what prosecutors do every day. They literally bribe witnesses by their freedom, sometimes their life and their money."
Meanwhile, it "may be too late for Manafort to flip back," said Dershowitz. The former campaign chairman is accused of lying to Mueller's investigators. He was convicted in a separate case in Virginia for a bank and tax fraud scheme connected to his work in Ukraine.
Even if Manafort is now willing to cooperate, it's likely the prosecution will treat him as a "hostile, adverse witness" and will either try him again or recommend a maximum sentence against him, said Dershowitz.
He added that Cohen is likely to offer information about the Trump family's plans to build a tower in Moscow that could suggest collusion, but collusion is not a crime.
"Unless they can prove a lot more than economic deals or meetings in the Trump Tower, they are not crossing the line from what some people might regard as political sin to federal crime," he said.
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