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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 06/06/2019 11:49 AM EDT
Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has fired his legal team as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian official, according to a new filing Thursday from his long-time attorneys.
The lawyers, Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony, offered no explanation for their abrupt dismissal in a two-page motion delivered to the federal judge who will mete out Flynns punishment stemming from his 2017 guilty plea to Robert Muellers prosecutors.
In their filing, the attorneys said Flynn had notified them that he is terminating Covington & Burling LLP as his counsel and has already retained new counsel for this matter.
They did not identify Flynns new legal team and declined comment when asked by POLITICO who now represents the former senior Trump aide, who landed in legal trouble after lying about the subject of conversations he had with high-ranking Russian officials during the 2016 transition.
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Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2019
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Yet he got a sweetheart deal because in the end, ya know after he betraying his country he was
UniteFightBack
Jun 2019
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ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)1. Lock him up......
Flynn did 100 times the 1/10 Hillary Clinton did.
Prison for you, Mikey.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)2. Yet he got a sweetheart deal because in the end, ya know after he betraying his country he was
so invaluable.
WHY was he given that deal..???? FOR WHAT?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,994 posts)3. Lock him up!!!!!