” I think Mueller’s sentencing request is all about revenge on Cohen”
Clearly.
But it was probably a double cross from the start. Mueller knows it’s a big stretch to make a private matter a “campaign finance violation”, but that’s the problem with what he’s doing: he extorted a vulnerable victim and he never planned to give the guy a break.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was. I was checking on the sentences that others got on their plea deals, and the longest was 6 months in prison, plus 6 months home detention. Others were 14 days, and 30 days. Gates got no prison time and is now off GPS monitoring. Mueller is recommending that General Flynn get no prison time. Manafort cut a plea deal to avoid the second trial, but Mueller is now saying that Manafort broke the plea deal. My thought is that Manafort is the last Trump connected individual he has left to try to get anything on the President. What better way of pressuring Manafort to lie for him about Trump, than by coming up with reasons to void the plea deal?