Posted on 06/06/2019 10:35:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
A court filing Thursday revealed that Flynn had notified his attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony that he is “terminating” them as his counsel and has already hired new lawyers to replace them.
(Reuters) – Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has dismissed the legal team that represented him in his dealings with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe and retained new counsel, according to a court filing on Thursday.
The move to dismiss lawyers Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony of Covington & Burling LLP comes ahead of Flynn’s sentencing, which was postponed in December after the judge in the case criticized a memo filed by his lawyers to the court.
“As only sentencing remains in this case, sentencing has not yet been scheduled, and General Flynn has already retained new counsel, withdrawal at this time would not be prejudicial to any of the parties or otherwise inconsistent with the interests of justice,” Kelner and Anthony wrote.
‘A name everyone will recognize’…
NEW: I'm told General Flynn's new lawyer is very high profile and appears on TV regularly
"A name everyone will recognize"
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 6, 2019
JUST IN: Flynn abruptly fires his lawyers ahead of sentencing https://t.co/5q116WOcFB pic.twitter.com/KDfPwpXNzL
— The Hill (@thehill) June 6, 2019
NEW: Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has decided to dismiss his lawyers and has retained new counsel, according to a court filing by his former legal team on Thursday https://t.co/CnWJnwFTVQ pic.twitter.com/yRaY6lMYnV
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) June 6, 2019
BREAKING: Michael FLYNN has fired his counsel and is retaining a new lawyer ahead of his sentencing. pic.twitter.com/T5kqfassDX
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 6, 2019
A little slow on the BREAKING NEWS there. This story was first posted about two hours ago.
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Then rejoyce with us who didn’t see it two hours ago.
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Trey Gowdy?
I think Joe is the best bet, he is BRILLIANT..and Victoria Tensing is great too
Exactly so.
He didn’t have a chance.
They were funneling info to the FBI.......................
Never understood why Flynn hired the law firm Covington & Burling in the first place. It is closely tied to the Democratic party. His attorney’s could have had the charges dismissed within a month or two. Instead, they worked against his interests and milked him for everything he owned.
I suspect Flynn’s new attorney will have this case dismissed in short order and then sue the previous attorneys for the fees they charged.
Remember when we used to call him Drizzle Shittz. Man that used to make me laugh.
We’ll see. I assume that Gen. Flynn’s lawyers are going to demand Flynn’s former attorneys’ entire litigation file, including all communications with Mueller’s team and the judge. Their is bound to be stuff in there they don’t want to release.
Flynn may accept a return of all the fees in return for not getting the entire file.
Flynn was set up.
It’s blatantly obvious................
Avenatti?
Only kidding.
Judge Nap. HAHAHA.
I just have a feeling he wants this sentencing foolishness over. His attorneys keep kowtowing to the DOJ attorneys who want to keep him muzzled.
Remember when we used to call him Drizzle Shittz. Man that used to make me laugh.
And his own attorneys were part of the plan to set him up. Flynn knew too much about the corruption in the Deep State intelligence agencies, so they conspired to get rid of him, no matter what the cost.
I'm guessing the new lawyer will have to have time to familiarize himself/herself with the case. I doubt a Judge would veto any extension under those circumstances.
I could never understand why Flynn did NOT fight this travesty.
It didn’t take much to see that those charges were BS with a capital S.
Flynn was doing his job and yet NOBODY came to his rescue.
THAT needs to be investigated.
Maybe this will get Weissman disbarred..Please, Please...
Given what we know now, he should sue his prior attorneys for incompetent defense. Seems like they employed the bleed them then plead them tactic. I estimate it cost him something like 250-400 K.
As to whom, DO NOT pick an insider group again. DeGenova would be fine but he is busy making the rounds on TV. Weisenberg would be fine. Problem is, does he have the cash to pay now. If he has to go to the pro bono route, Dershowitz may take it up as a civil rights violation.
Robert Barnes?
It broke hours ago.
Maybe one of his lawyers should have told him at the beginning he was innocent.
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