Michael Flynn's defense team is entirely dismissing admissions he made as part of his guilty plea two years ago that he provided false information to the Justice Department
that the defense said could expose prosecutorial misconduct, including that Flynn was tricked into his guilty plea and into making the key statement that triggered the prosecution: his denial to the FBI in January 2017 that he had discussed the issue of sanctions with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. during the transition.
Flynn had been set for sentencing last December on the single false-statement felony charge he pleaded guilty to almost two years ago. Mueller’s team had not recommended he serve jail time, due to his cooperation with the government. Sullivan postponed the sentencing at Flynn’s request so he could testify in the Rafiekian case, He never did, although his new attorneys stressed in the filing Monday. he was willing to do so.
Prosecutors convinced jurors that Rafiekian knew he was acting on behalf of Turkey during the summer and fall of 2016 when the Flynn Intelligence Group accepted a $600,000 contract to shape the opinion of U.S. leaders and the American public to encourage to extradition to Turkey of a longtime Turkish dissident cleric who has lived in Pennsylvania for two decades, Fethullah Gulen.
Flynn is now set for sentencing on Dec.18, but if Sullivan grants Flynn’s demand for access to a slew of Mueller-related records, that hearing would almost certainly be postponed again.
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