Posted on 07/18/2019 9:55:15 AM PDT by detective
“You are asking my client to lie,” Michael Flynn’s new defense attorney Sidney Powell charged in a contentious June meeting with federal prosecutors. Flynn would continue to cooperate with prosecutors, Powell stressed, but he could not provide the testimony the government sought at the July trial of Flynn Intel Group (FIG) co-founder Bijan Rafiekian, “because it is not true.”
Soon after, the government filed a motion in Rafiekian’s case, branding Flynn a co-conspirator and informing the court that Flynn would no longer testify against his former business partner. While federal prosecutors are reticent to explain how Flynn went from being a star witness to complicit in the crimes with which they charged Rafiekian, a scouring of the court records reveals the genesis of the falling-out. It also suggests that, in the escalating dispute between the government attorneys and Flynn’s new lawyer, Powell has the better argument.
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Just before the trial the government provided a one sentence statement:
“The United States government is in possession of multiple independent pieces of information relating to the Turkish government’s efforts to influence United States policy on Turkey and Fethullah Gulen, including information relating to communications, interactions, and a relationship between Ekim Alptekin and Michael Flynn and Ekim Alptekin’s engagement of Michael Flynn because of Michael Flynn’s relationship with an ongoing presidential campaign without any reference to the defendant or FIG.”
The “information” was not provided to the special counsel, the prosecution team handling Flynn and Alptekin’s criminal trials, or defense attorneys.
The “information” was probably about the quality of the Steele dossier.
I may be the only one here who feels this way, but this guy has “Beltway Swamp Denizen” written all over him.
Interesting - the prosecutors made a court filing in June saying that Flynn was not a co-conspirator in the Rafiekian case, then later tried to “correct” their filing by saying he was.
I would assume these filings are made under penalty of perjury.
The judge can merely ask the prosecutors, then, which filing was a lie.
At that point I’d suppose the judge can refer the prosecutor for a perjury complaint.
Which in this case would be fitting.
I hear you but can’t help think this is what thousands of swamp dwellers and courtesans have always done.
In other words, why is Flynn singled out when so many have done and are doing such things even today?
For example, Obama’s campaign team dispatched to Israel to fight the Likkud party?
Biden’s boy in the Ukraine?
Right now, democrat (and Republican) operatives are helping all kinds of foreign governments with all kinds of propaganda/electoral help with people who also work for democrats in Washington.
If Flynn is a dirty rotten scoundrel for this than so is George Stepphanopolous for politicizing from behind the anchor’s desk. Former wannabe Speaker Dick Gephardt still makes $1.2 million annually from Turkey!
From what I’ve read, it seems like the prosecutors weren’t going to consider Flynn a co-conspirator at first because that was part of his plea deal. They changed their mind when his new lawyers started raising objections to his cooperation with the prosecution in the case against his business partners.
He was either a conspirator, indicted or unindicted, or not. The prosecution changed their version of events to punish him.
Flynn also pleaded guilty to a crime that — by all accounts — he knows he didn’t commit. Isn’t that perjury, too?
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think a plea is sworn testimony; it's a person's Constitutional right under the 5th, 6th, and 7th amendments.
-PJ
Not if done under duress.
Isn’t a plea deal “under duress” by definition? LOL.
“Flynn also pleaded guilty to a crime that — by all accounts — he knows he didn’t commit. Isn’t that perjury, too?”
No. That is what is known as a plea deal.
No, he was not working for a foreign government, he was working for a private Dutch company called Inovo BV.
The company is, however, owned by a Turkish businessman. The businessman was alleged to ‘have ties’ to Erdogan, but that’s pretty vague, like Trump’s alleged ‘ties’ to Epstein turned out to be.
The reporters must be a bit fuzzy on their allegations too since they only said Flynn ‘might have aided the government of Turkey,’ rather than making the usual prejudgement and claiming he did.
Also, the judge has since thrown out Bijian Khan’s conviction, smacking the juries judgement in the process.
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