General Discussion

A bit dramatically phrased, but it's totally standard to advise a client to say as little as possible. In fact, 5 words is generous.

While it does protect the guilty, it also protects innocent clients who think they are helping by being overly cooperative, when in fact they are just giving prosecutors more to work with, more quotes to pick from, to piece together or take out of context to create a basis for a search warrant, and indictment, an argument that plays in front for a jury, etc.

Personally, I think he's quite likely his involvement stinks, but I'll allow that it's possible his involvement was strictly professional. If that were the case, then it's especially important to his defense that he say as little as possible.

As a side note, people do use the phrase "I'll kill you if..." when they merely mean "I'm super serious". Unless accompanied by a credible means to actually kill, such as brandishing a weapon, it's just an "idle threat".

Just to be clear, I'm defending the lawyer, not wexner