Posted on 05/07/2020 10:41:26 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Mueller/DOJ prosecutor Brandon Van Grack - who went after Flynn, threatened his son, and withheld evidence - is gone from the Flynn case.
Not enough
The SOB should be disbarred
The prosecution did not act on their own to destroy Flynn. Somebody gave them instructions to do this.
This guy needs his ankles put in a vise to find out all of the names.
Getting these career jerks out of government is satisfying. I don’t even care if they keep their pension, just get them out.
Bill Clinton!
I wouldn’t expect any bar discipline. Here is what happened in the egregious Ted Stevens case:
“The Justice Department has found that two prosecutors involved in the botched 2008 corruption trial of Senator Ted Stevens engaged in “reckless professional misconduct,” but it stopped short of firing the men, saying their mistakes were not intentional.
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In a cover letter to a 672-page report provided to Congress on Thursday, alongside additional attachments and findings, the Justice Department said the two prosecutors would be suspended without pay — Joseph Bottini for 40 days, and James Goeke for 15 days.
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The case, however, started to fall apart after it emerged that prosecutors had failed to turn over information, like conflicting statements by witnesses, that might have helped Mr. Stevens at his trial. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., then new to the job, asked the judge to throw out the conviction, and both the court and the department began investigations. Mr. Stevens died in a 2010 plane crash.
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And both reports essentially exonerated two supervisors at the public integrity section, William Welch and Brenda Morris, and a lower-ranking prosecutor, Edward Sullivan. (The Justice Department report said that Ms. Morris, assigned to take over the case just before trial, had shown “poor judgment” in failing to oversee how colleagues reviewed what evidence to turn over, but did not commit misconduct.)
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There was at least one major difference, however: the special prosecutor concluded that Mr. Bottini and Mr. Goeke had intentionally withheld evidence, while the Justice Department investigation found that their mistakes — while showing reckless disregard for their disclosure obligations — were not deliberate.
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Even the prospect of suspending Mr. Bottini and Mr. Goeke was disputed inside the department, the materials showed. Terrence Berg, a lawyer with the department’s Professional Misconduct Review Unit who was assigned to review the report and propose any discipline, wanted to reject its findings. In a lengthy memorandum, he argued that the mistakes amounted to “poor judgment” but not misconduct, so no sanction was warranted.
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But lawyers for Mr. Stevens called the suspensions “pathetic,” saying the department had “demonstrated conclusively that it is not capable of disciplining its prosecutors.”
What about all the other cases he’s prosecuted during his time at DOJ? Surely he didn’t just start being an a-hole on the Mueller team.
Because Flynn has spent almost two and a half years working hard to first delay his sentencing, and then get his case dismissed.
fox now reporting
Mueller prosecutor withdraws from Flynn case after questions surface concerning his compliance with court order
In the end, although Mueller was only there for his paycheck, he's still responsible for everything this guy, and others did during this investigation. He's the one who hired them for his team, and the buck stops with him.
Possibly, but it is also not uncommon for the government to remove a prosecutor if they become a focal point of the case or to shield them if there is an anticipated conflict with a Judge.
One thing that struck me as odd and potentially dangerous from the outset of this whole process with the Special Counsel was that the same attorneys who conducted the “investigation” were the prosecutors in court.
One of the “safeguards” in our legal system is that a dispassionate prosecutor takes the case from investigators and prosecutes it. Having the same “investigator” act as the prosecutor, especially in a highly charged investigation with indications of partisanship, is not a normal occurrence, but then again, this case was abnormal from the beginning.
This is why those documents that were not turned over to the court or to Flynn’s counsel are so important. Were they turned over to the prosecution (i.e. - the Special Counsel) or were they never turned over by the FBI?
Why is “poor judgment” always claimed, when everybody knows it was all done deliberately, and maliciously? "Poor Judgement" my ass.
The documents are dropping
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It does appear that some are trickling out. I am very skeptical of Barr but IF he is moving forward with plans to indict I can understand why he might want to “set the table” by putting some damning documents out there to prepare the country for what’s coming down. Then again maybe he’s doing some backroom deals to avoid all this.
Its been a maddening process to watch.
In a single case, yes. I'm referring to the post that says Van Grack is removing himself from MULTIPLE cases he had been prosecuting.
Thanks. This clears up my post above a bit so it is likely that there are forthcoming documents held by the prosecution that were not turned over that are exculpatory.
This is in line with what Powell said last week about the documents coming as well as John Solomon’s reporting (he is almost always right and breaks a lot of news).
Another black eye for the Special Counsel’s investigation.
They wanted total control over the whole process, from start to finish. That way they could do what they wanted, with nobody else being the wiser. They were their own little cabal.
His withdrawal from all cases is a good sign that the next round of documents to drop from the independent review will be consequential.
Ouch.
I do not see how Judge Sullivan does not vacate the plea or toss the case if the forthcoming documents were what Sidney Powell said they were - “worse than the last bunch”.
The Mueller report was a mess as was the entire Special Counsel investigation. What a travesty. I did not think it could get much worse than the laughable “troll farm” indictments, but I might have sold them short.
The guy directing all of this was Obama.
Yes, he was disbarred but not for actions performed as a lawyer, which is what I was intending to say.
It’s looking that way.....
The whole Special Counsel fiasco looks weaker every week and with every document dump. This is why the release of the transcripts for the house investigation will be so important.
Over 50 witnesses and NOT ONE said they were directly aware of any collusion. Ouch.
The Presidents counsel stated they were going to write a rebuttal of the Mueller report. While that will not likely occur anytime soon, it should be very interesting even though there will likely be plenty of books out first by Solomon, Jarrett, Bongino, possibly Powell, and others.
There is already a LOT of damning stuff to the Mueller investigation with some really big documents still awaiting release. It is already obvious there was no predicate crime.
Rat deserting the sinking ship he tried to sail...probably buying tickets to a non-extradition place right now...
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