I dont see the coast guard as hypocrites… i think they just didn't want to deal with it.
De-escalate and move on.
No need to turn it into a Streisand situation.
Manafort is pleading because they've got him cold.
He's giving up most of the money he made but staying out of jail.
He's got to sell out Podesta, Mercury/Weber, Skadden/Craig, and probably Deripaska/FIrtesch/Pinchuk… which leads to HRC.
That's why he's been in 'solitary'
They all want to kill him.
He flipped awhile ago.