Posted on 04/28/2020 2:02:50 PM PDT by bitt
The federal judge presiding over retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn’s case issued a surprise order telling the former national security adviser’s previous attorneys to conduct another search of their entire case archive after it was revealed they failed to turn thousands of documents over to Flynn’s new defense team.
The ruling by Judge Emmet Sullivan was made public Tuesday afternoon after Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony, Flynn’s former lawyers at the powerhouse firm Covington & Burling, claimed there were 6,800 records they had only just now unearthed and turned over to Flynn’s current defense team, which has been led by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell since July 2019.
“It is FURTHER ORDERED that Covington & Burling LLP shall re-execute a search of every document and communication pertaining to the firm's representation of Mr. Flynn,” stated Sullivan’s ruling, which appeared on the public docket. “It is FURTHER ORDERED that Covington & Burling LLP is FORTHWITH DIRECTED to produce to Mr. Flynn's successor counsel all documents or communications concerning the firm's representation of Mr. Flynn that were not previously transferred in the rolling productions. It is FURTHER ORDERED that Covington & Burling LLP shall file a notice of compliance with this Order by no later than 12:00 PM on May 4, 2020.”
Around the same time Tuesday afternoon, a seven-page filing from the Covington attorneys was unsealed, which showed that Kelner and Anthony had just transferred thousands of documents that they had been sitting on for almost a year to Powell and Flynn’s new team. Earlier in April, Covington admitted it failed to transfer a number of emails and two hand-written notes over to Powell, but Tuesday showed that this was just the tip of the iceberg.
“Covington has now re-executed the email collection and searches on the broader set of emails,
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
surprise surprise
Flynn’s prior lawyers have found “approximately 6,800 documents and emails” that were not previously produced to Flynn and @SidneyPowell1
Full doc:https://t.co/fQu32MCLAL pic.twitter.com/IRMr75Hfng— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) April 28, 2020
They had H->! wiping their computers with a cloth?
You watch - Flynn won’t get off. There are enormous pressures to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Covington & Burling LLP are in the hot seat. Judge Sullivan is not happy with their deception, er.. mistake.
Score a big one for General Flynn and his new attorney Sydney Powell.
It appears things may be turning around for General Flynn...
Wow. Can the former attorneys be prosecuted for anything? I guess the Brady Rule says the prosecution must turn over anything exculpatory, so I guess it doesn’t apply to former attorneys of the defendant.
So ... what happens if they “don’t find anything”?
What is the nature of those pressures?
What motivates them?
they were probably searching for “comey” when they should have been searching for “corney”
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Looks like the judge still wants to play games, a delaying tactic, cannot force himself to admit it was a scam against Flynn.
Looks like the judge still wants to play games, a delaying tactic, cannot force himself to admit it was a scam against Flynn.
Thousands more being generated by his present attorneys !
No wonder the good General is totally bankrupt.
Leni
In a normal world, conspiring against your client would lead to being disbarred.
I want to see General Flynn exonerated first and foremost, then sue the pants off of these lawyers. But if they can be punished in other ways, thst would be great. It’s clear they were working on someone’s behalf and it sure wasn’t their client.
Hunch, there was a FISA warrant on Gen. Flynn throughout the campaign and during the transition.
Legal malpractice. His own lawyers screwed him.
It would be interesting if Eric Holder is on any of the internal communications. He is a partner at the firm.
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