Oh he is ratting that is what assisting is bro I am just saying cooperation also mean taking a plea, admitting guilt and so on.
I don't even know this dude but right after all his BS I joined a board he was one and I think owned but he was banned so I am not sticking up for him I read assisting and that is BAD.
To cooperate is the admit guilt IMO
To assist is help LE get the other people involved.
If you think about it it's why they used both word not just one the have different meanings.
Hi SFG. What you're saying about cooperating means taking a plea. It' called "acceptance of responsibility". You get 2 or 3 downard departures for doing this. Cooperating and assisting is telling the gov't everything you know about your case. The prosecuter must be satisfied that you are hiding nothing. You get a 51k which is a document attached to your sentencing paperwork. It explains why ones sentence is less than what the federal guidelines call for.
If you have 1pt or 0 points after the presentencing investigation is done you can also qualify for the "saftey valve" this is the same as cooperating because you must satisfy the gov't that you have told them EVERYTHING. You get a downward departure from the guidelines with this also.
The reason child molesters get less time than most is because most of them have no criminal history. The computer kiddie porn is their crime. They get much less time but regardless of what their custody classification is they must go behind a fence and not a fed camp which has no fence and one can just walk away from. The minimum security facilities are full of chomos. The federal system is complicated and confusing.