dangled pardons in front of people and that constitutes tampering with witnesses and bribery. think what prosecutors do every day. they literally bribe witnesses by their freedom, sometimes their life and their money. in fact, 15 years ago a court of appeals had the courage to say look, the bribery statute says anyone who offers anything of value to a witness and therefore when the government offers less time in prison to a witness in order to get their testimony, that constitutes bribery. of course it was reversed later by a higher court but the disproportionality between the power of prosecutors and defense attorneys to influence the testimony of witnesses by offering them enormous amounts of valuable assets, life, liberty, money, whereas if the defense even suggests for a moment a benefit from