Posted on 05/14/2020 2:43:51 PM PDT by Beave Meister
The federal judge overseeing Michael Flynn’s criminal prosecution has directed the law firm that Flynn fired to reappear as an interested party in the controversial proceeding. On Thursday, that firm complied by filing a notice of appearance.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the clerk of the court to “add Covington & Burling LLP (‘Covington’) as an interested party in this matter and directed counsel for Covington to file a notice of appearance on behalf of Covington as an interested party.” John E. Hall, the chair of Covington Burling’s global litigation practice, submitted the filing.
The order follows the highly controversial decision by the DOJ last week to file a motion to drop the criminal charges against Flynn, despite the retired lieutenant general having already pleaded guilty to lying to agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The DOJ now believes the Flynn case was an inappropriate setup.
Flynn was initially represented by Covington & Burling and attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony when he pleaded guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI. However, he fired his legal team soon thereafter and replaced it with a new of team of attorneys led by conservative lawyer Sidney Powell. The new attorneys immediately accused Flynn’s previous legal team of ineffective assistance of counsel.
“Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea (and later failure to withdraw it) was the result of the ineffective assistance of counsel provided by his former lawyers, who were in the grip of intractable conflicts of interest, and severely prejudiced him,” Flynn’s current legal team wrote in a January motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
“That pernicious conflict infected and prejudiced his defense until he retained new counsel in 2019.”
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Re-appear? As what, a$$hats?
Why would they be “Interested parties”.
Is the biased judge grasping at straws?
Do the fired lawyers pay depend on Flynn going to prison?
What interest do they have at this point?
Someone correct me if I am wrong but I thought I read that the Senate Intel Committee offered Flynn immunity for his testimony but his lawyers refused without consulting him.
You can’t beat something with nothing. The classified material regarding the Flynn investigation is being released by the DNI. The Media would like an excuse to dismiss the more startling revelations close to Obama because he’s neck deep in this. Blowing smoke about the eventual dismissal of the Flynn case is “that something” the Media needs.
Flynn officially moved to withdraw his guilty plea in January. Was he granted that request? Is this perjury charge based upon his making that guilty plea, which would be seen as lying to the court? If so, how would he even be guilty of something that came from a fabricated entrapment? Judge Sullivan is no judge to unwind this legal Shift Show. We need to recuse Sullivan, immediately!
Yup. I figure that Bammy just jumped the gun on the Dem talking points.
My guess is he was not on the phone call, but the call was “leaked” to the media who in turn dutifully published it so all the Deep State foot soldiers like Sullivan could coordinate their talking points.
Hussein’s halal paw prints are all over this.
The NSA meta data on Sullivan would be verrrryyy interesting.
that makes sense. Still who was on that call?
He’s trying to set up a battle between Flynn and his former attorneys. Flynn says they gave him bad advice and withheld evidence from him. The judge figures the lawyers will dispute that.
I personally think this works to Trumps advantage. It keeps the story in the news. More shoes will fall and further proceedings will make sure that happens. It also demonstrates that the judiciary is in this up to their eyeballs. The judiciary has been complicit I all this. They need to be exposed.
I’m with you. There is almost nothing they can testify to, that won’t violate the attorney-client privilege. And they are clearly being brought into court to impeach his motion and testimony. This is true banana republic stuff, and Roberts had better put a stop to it fast if he wants any of his waning credibility to survive.
If Flynn pled without knowing of some of the exculpatory evidence in the hands of his attorneys then their conflict of interest is not mute but implicates them in the execution of gross malpractice.
He’s going to ask if they held it back. They will no doubt say no.
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Because his good buddy Eric Holder works at the same firm.
Probably the same ones he met with in the Oval Office on January 5, 2017: Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Biden, Rice, Yates.
Plus, someone pointed out on a thread last night that you are not under oath when you make your plea.
Isn't that the job of a prosecutor? Sullivan wants to be prosecutor, Judge and jury in this case. He can only be one.
Covington Burling is screwed. Perhaps the deal here is to sanction them for Flynn's fees and costs, more or less making Flynn whole so he doesn't have damages for the civil suits he will start dropping on people once this is dismissed.
That isn't my theory and I can't really believe it, but I did here it today and pass it on.
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