Cohen friend:"Mueller threatened to throw Cohen's wife in jail for up to 30 years!"

The woman standing behind Congressman Mark Meadows is Lynne Patton. Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse tells us that on January 18 of this year she wrote a Facebook post, saying in part,

What many of you may not be aware of is the fact that I can personally confirm that the ONLY reason Michael Cohen “turned on” the President of the United States is because Mueller threatened to throw his wife in jail for up to 30 years. Period. She is the co-guarantor of a $20M personal loan that Mueller discovered Michael secured back in 2015 by falsely inflating the value of his taxi medallions – effectively making her part & parcel to the federal charge of “Making False Statements to a Financial Institution,” to which Cohen ultimately plead guilty.

Sundance continues,

This is a rather stunning statement. However, it holds the elements of truth and explanation as to why the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller/Andrew Weissmann, would pass off their assembled Cohen prosecution to the Southern District of New York.


If this leverage against Cohen’s wife to gain virtually unlimited legal and political cooperation is true; and it does follow a pre-established pattern of unethical prosecutorial conduct previously displayed by Andrew Weissmann; then many of the issues surrounding the behavior of Michael Cohen do begin to make sense.

Interestingly, this type of unlawful coercion and threat to compel a guilty plea and cooperation from a defendant are specifically prohibited:

Commenter John added,

This is a longstanding tactic of Meuller and Weismann as is solitary confinement going back thru General Flynn and his son, the tactics used to arrest Roger Stone, the solitary confinement of Paul Manafort, their destruction of Arthur Andersen and the four Merrill Lynch execs, all the way back to Boston and Whitey Bulger. The pattern is clear and irrefutable. They use Gestapo tactics to threaten, intimidate and physically punish to coerce false testimony and “cooperation” to fit their narrative.

Commenter Sentient agrees,

Exactly. They got Mike Flynn to plead guilty to a questionable “crime” by threatening his son. The fact that the “they” is a different set of people doesn’t matter. It’s the Swamp. They’re going to eventually go after Trump’s family, too, if they can. They’d threaten Barron if it could help get Trump removed. As soon as they saw Cohen’s wife’s name on that $20M Note, they knew they had him. They’ll probably try the same thing with Roger Stone. He can’t “sing” (there’s nothing to sing about), but they could try to make him compose.

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