The judge also could put Trump’s sentencing on ice until after Nov. 5 to avoid the perception that he’s “putting his foot on the scales of the election” by imposing a sentence on a presidential candidate in the thick of a campaign, according to Kevin O’Brien, a partner at Ford O’Brien Landy LLP in New York and a former federal prosecutor in Brooklyn.
“You were sailing a boat, moving along and then the winds die and you’re just sitting out there getting sunburned and hungry,” said O’Brien, the white collar partner at Ford O’Brien Landy. “That’s what has happened here.”