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Maeve

(42,224 posts)
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 03:59 PM Jun 2020

Flynn committed perjury and his guilty plea of lying to FBI should not be dismissed as DOJ requests

Source: Washington Post

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Flynn committed perjury and his guilty plea of lying to FBI should not be dismissed as DOJ requests, court-appointed expert finds

Michael Flynn committed perjury and his guilty plea of lying to the FBI should not be dismissed, a court-appointed counsel told a federal judge Wednesday, calling the Justice Department’s attempt to undo the conviction “a gross abuse of prosecutorial power.”

In a formal briefing to the judge overseeing Flynn’s case, former New York federal judge John Gleeson argued that though Flynn committed perjury by first admitting under oath to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts and then seeking to rescind his guilty plea, Trump’s former national security adviser should not face a contempt hearing but instead be punished as part of his sentence.

“Flynn has indeed committed perjury in these proceedings, for which he deserves punishment, and the Court has the authority to initiate a prosecution for that crime,” Gleeson wrote in an 82-page opinion. “I respectfully recommend, however, that the Court not exercise that authority. Rather, it should take Flynn’s perjury into account in sentencing him on the offense to which he has already admitted guilt. This approach — rather than a separate prosecution for perjury or contempt — aligns with the Court’s intent to treat this case, and this Defendant, in the same way it would any other.”

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had paused Flynn’s case to hear from outside groups and appointed Gleeson to argue against the Justice Department’s May 7 motion to immediately drop its prosecution of the retired three-star general. Flynn was the highest-ranking Trump adviser convicted in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynn-committed-perjury-but-should-not-face-contempt-hearing-court-appointed-counsel-finds/2020/06/10/09dada24-aa81-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html

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Flynn committed perjury and his guilty plea of lying to FBI should not be dismissed as DOJ requests (Original Post) Maeve Jun 2020 OP
'Gross abuse' is Cheeto's middle name sandensea Jun 2020 #1
Thank you Judge Sullivan and Judge Gleeson Leghorn21 Jun 2020 #2
Judge Sullivan has not made a ruling. former9thward Jun 2020 #5
I was thanking Judge Sullivan for bringing Judge Gleeson into the fray to take a look at the Leghorn21 Jun 2020 #6
Lock his treasonous ass up and throw away the GD key............... turbinetree Jun 2020 #3
AWESOME now lock his ass up and force RUMPASS bluestarone Jun 2020 #4
I don't think "finds" is the correct term FBaggins Jun 2020 #7
Flynn is a dishonorable and disgusting flop. Sentence him!! Law and Order!! Baked Potato Jun 2020 #8
Charles Pierce: Long ago, John Gleeson was the federal prosecutor who sent John Gotti away. muriel_volestrangler Jun 2020 #9

former9thward

(31,805 posts)
5. Judge Sullivan has not made a ruling.
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 06:34 PM
Jun 2020

A little early for thanks. Judge Gleeson was hired by the court to make the argument he did. We will see how it proceeds.

Leghorn21

(13,520 posts)
6. I was thanking Judge Sullivan for bringing Judge Gleeson into the fray to take a look at the
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 07:33 PM
Jun 2020

case, since I thought that’s what happened...but at any rate, “so far, so good”!!

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
3. Lock his treasonous ass up and throw away the GD key...............
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 04:40 PM
Jun 2020


If I were to do the crap he and what others have done I would be placed in Colorado's maximum prison.............end of story...........

FBaggins

(26,697 posts)
7. I don't think "finds" is the correct term
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 11:06 PM
Jun 2020

He was brought in specifically to argue the opposing position (since both prosecution and defense were now aligned). So he isn't evaluating the opposing positions and making a recommendation... his job is to oppose the motion.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
9. Charles Pierce: Long ago, John Gleeson was the federal prosecutor who sent John Gotti away.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:12 PM
Jun 2020

"He must yearn for those innocent times in which gangsters were not proceeded everywhere by the Marine Band."

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32828242/michael-flynn-amicus-brief-judge-gleason-william-barr/

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