Since when did the likes of Edward Dorsey of Washington enjoy that kind of leniency?
The team for Mr. Cohen, the president's former lawyer, at least, has signaled a willingness to provide information to the special counsel in exchange for some kind of leniency.
According to Fleischer, the company is desperate to avoid being frozen out of the bidding process for future public contracts and so is trying to seek some kind of leniency agreement.
If you buy a new drone after today, you don't get that kind of leniency.
But at the moment, we kids can't get it together enough to justify why we should get any kind of leniency, so too bad for us.
But it's the kind of leniency Trump only seems to show criminals who get favorable coverage from the right-wing media.
Now, even this kind of leniency is something I wouldn't have dreamed of at the university I attended--but I didn't even enforce this policy all of the time, because I needed to keep my job.
"Somebody with a different background who the judge didn't relate to, I can't imagine that kind of leniency or consideration," she said, noting it's unlikely that a young man of colour who didn't play sports would have been treated the same.
In their letter, which they have also sent to the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, the 15 cite the former CIA director David Petraeus as an example of the kind of official leniency that has so far eluded Snowden.
Medical bills offer a bit more leniency than most other kinds of loans, and even if they go on your credit report they're generally looked at differently than other missed payments.
Second, she must use the investigation itself to demonstrate that her corporation is the kind of good citizen deserving of the trust, leniency, and lesser sanctions the government extends to self-policing companies.
