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Robert Mueller’s Case Against Michael Flynn Is About To Implode
The Federalist ^ | 4/27/2020 | margot cleveland

Posted on 04/27/2020 3:29:37 PM PDT by bitt

New facts in the Michael Flynn case call into question the voluntariness of Flynn’s plea. Judge Sullivan should dismiss the charges to send a clear message: Outrageous prosecutorial coercion will not be tolerated.

The criminal case against Michael Flynn imploded Friday. First, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia provided Flynn’s legal team with documents discovered by an outside review of the Flynn prosecution — documents withheld for years. Then, Sidney Powell, the attorney who took over Flynn’s defense nearly a year ago, filed new documents in the case, revealing a secret “lawyers’ understanding” not to prosecute Flynn’s son if the retired lieutenant general pleaded guilty.

The criminal case against Flynn began when President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser pleaded guilty Dec. 1, 2017, to lying to the FBI about conversations he’d had with the Russian ambassador following Trump’s election. That case, initiated by the now-disbanded special counsel’s office, lingered for more than a year while Flynn cooperated with Robert Mueller’s team. An end seemed near when Flynn appeared before presiding federal Judge Emmet Sullivan on Dec. 18, 2018, for sentencing. But after Sullivan harshly rebuked Flynn and suggested Flynn might spend time in jail, the retired lieutenant general accepted the longtime judge’s offer to have the sentencing hearing continued until Flynn’s cooperation was complete.

Things remained static until Mueller announced on May 29, 2019, that “the investigation was complete, and that the special counsel’s office had been closed.” One week later, Flynn fired his Covington & Burling lawyers, Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony, and replaced them with Powell.

Powell, a vocal critic of the Mueller investigation, filed a flurry of motions seeking, among other things, documents she maintained the government had improperly withheld; she also sought dismissal of the indictment for prosecutorial misconduct. Sullivan

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: flynn; margotcleveland; michaelflynn; mikeflynn; mueller; muellerinvestigation
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To: bitt

Ain’t gonna happen.

The Deep State reigns supreme.


21 posted on 04/27/2020 4:07:41 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: bitt

It sounds like the new documents verify Flynn’s claim that the prosecutors were blackmailing him to plead guilty by threatening to prosecute his son.


22 posted on 04/27/2020 4:08:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: bitt

Tick tock lol......


23 posted on 04/27/2020 4:14:12 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: bitt
The Obama Administration was certainly adept at weaponizing its Federal Prosecutorial and Investigative powers.


24 posted on 04/27/2020 4:15:30 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: eyeamok; bitt

Judge Sullivan should dismiss the charges to send a clear message: Outrageous prosecutorial coercion will not be tolerated.

This is a Joke Right?? What is the Judge supposed to do, give back the Bribe Money Too??

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judge did his part. he earned his cut.

that money is long gone.


25 posted on 04/27/2020 4:19:02 PM PDT by thinden
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To: gibsonguy; bitt

Outrageous prosecutorial coercion will not be tolerated.

Is Manafort still in Solitary?

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outrageous is an understatement!

I guess manafort is still in Sol?


26 posted on 04/27/2020 4:20:44 PM PDT by thinden
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To: bitt

Waiting.

Hoping to celebrate for Flynn.


27 posted on 04/27/2020 4:20:50 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods ("As government expands, liberty contracts." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: bitt

I read this article earlier today. Very good summary.


28 posted on 04/27/2020 4:21:06 PM PDT by Revel
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To: griswold3

Best post of the day....(Post 13)

We all hold Sidney Powell in high regard.


29 posted on 04/27/2020 4:21:23 PM PDT by ptsal (C Bust the NVIA)
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To: griswold3

Yes...I read her book, which was both depressing and informative regarding the systemic Leftist corruption in the DOJ.


30 posted on 04/27/2020 4:21:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: bitt

What, no BOOM? It’s not true if there’s no BOOM.


31 posted on 04/27/2020 4:23:55 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: bitt
Sick of this shi!. Law and order? Been Fup for so many years that it is gone. Sensible people, go back to your nap. Nothing happening.
32 posted on 04/27/2020 4:26:17 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: bitt

According to the Gateway Pundit, Judge Sullivan will file his response to General Flynn’s motion to dismiss on Monday May 4th. Flynn attorney Sidney Powell’s counter-response must be filed within two days. Of course the judge could chose to file earlier than next Monday.


33 posted on 04/27/2020 4:26:30 PM PDT by elengr (Benghazi betrayal: rescue denied - our guys DIED - treason's the reason obama s/b tried then fried!)
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To: bitt

Yeah. Tic-toc. Boom. And other crap thst never happens. Ask Roger Stone how well judicial corruption has worked for him?


34 posted on 04/27/2020 4:30:18 PM PDT by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

35 posted on 04/27/2020 4:34:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: bitt

I was on the fence for a while about Emmet Sullivan, based on media accounts I could not decide what was going on with him. One day he would say or do something that indicated he was wholly in cahoots with the Mueller team and the Left, and another day he would say something that indicated sympathy with Flynn being railroaded.

I have over time come to the conclusion that Sullivan was completely in bed with Mueller and other components of the Left in this witch hunt. I am astonished that some power somewhere didn’t step in and put another judge in charge of it.

The judge had to see all this going on.


36 posted on 04/27/2020 4:37:27 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: BradyLS

I’m sure that you would have gotten all of this done by now. The culprits would have been hanged and their heads would be rotting on the railings of the 14th Street Bridge. You would have been, by now, nominated and seated as the Attorney General of the U.S. Congratulations.

Or perhaps you have trouble collecting the mail everyday and putting out the trash once a week, the conditions of free rent in your mother’s basement. Don’t worry, in your mind, you are a hero.


37 posted on 04/27/2020 4:37:34 PM PDT by centurion316 (.)
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To: Cheerio
I am not that fool hearty, sorry Hannity!!!

I suspect that your real shortcomings go way beyond this. Have you ever worked within or against the Administrative State, and, if so, please tell us about your successes.

38 posted on 04/27/2020 4:42:53 PM PDT by centurion316 (.)
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To: griswold3

Not an attorney, but IMHO, she is the most brilliant attorney in the world.........


39 posted on 04/27/2020 5:07:44 PM PDT by Arlis
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To: Tucker39
whatever happened to “pled”? The past tense of plead.

A few years ago some idiot in charge decided to declare war on irregular verbs. No one asked me or you for permission.

40 posted on 04/27/2020 5:21:26 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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