Professor James Cohen was quoted in a New York Post article about the allegation that Mayor De Blasio accepted bribes during his political campaign.
One such expert, Fordham Law professor Jim Cohen, said false guilty pleas were “very unusual, and it’s even more unusual to have a federal prosecutor complicit with it — and that’s what the mayor is saying.”
“In an allocution in federal court, they really make you state what you did, and when you meet with them previously, they ask you what you did,” he said.
“And if you lie to them, they’re not going to get in bed with you.”