Ex-judge says push to dismiss Flynn case is 'abuse of power'
Source: Associated Press
Michael Balsamo and Colleen Long, Associated Press
Updated 11:40 am CDT, Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP
FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn arrives at federal court in Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former federal judge appointed to review the Justice Department's motion to dismiss criminal charges against ex-national security Michael Flynn has found that the government's request should be denied because there is “clear evidence of a gross abuse of prosecutorial power.”
Former U.S. District Judge John Gleeson says in a filing Wednesday that the government “has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President.”
Gleeson was appointed by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in a special role to weigh in on the case, but it will ultimately be up to Sullivan and potentially an appeals court whether or not to accept the Justice Department’s motion to drop the case.
Flynn pleaded guilty, as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, to lying to the FBI about conversations with the then-Russian ambassador to the United States during the presidential transition period.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Ex-judge-says-push-to-dismiss-Flynn-case-is-15330239.php
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