Going forward I expect the feds to keep even closer tabs on these rat while they are out on the street and put in more specific and stringent language in their agreements about committing crimes, and successfully getting convictions at trial as a prerequisite for their cooperation.
thats just what i've been thinking. it seems for too long these rats have been allowed to run wild, and it might finally begin catching up to them as they have sunk or at least heavily tarnished some of these recent cases. if this kind of thing is allowed to continue, jurors might start seeing these government witnesses as damaged goods which could really throw a wrench into what has been the most succesful strategy by the feds, using these rats to put the pieces of sometimes otherwise weak cases together.