Flynn Hires Sidney Powell - Mueller's "Pit Bull" Meets His Match, Again
Via SaraCarter.com, Embattled Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has hired well known defense
attorney Sidney Powell to represent him before his sentencing hearing
in Washington D.C.’s federal court. Flynn, who fired his attorney’s last week, will still fully cooperate with the government in all cases pending, Powell told SaraACarter.com.
Flynn’s former legal counsel Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony offered no explanation for their abrupt dismissal telling SaraACarter.com they “decline to comment.”
“He is and will continue to cooperate with the government in all aspects,” Powell told SaraACarter.com.
“He and his family truly appreciate all the cards and letters of
support from countless people and the contributions to the defense fund
which are even more important now.”
Powell noted that Flynn’s case file, “is massive” and “it will take me at least 90 days to review it.”
Kelner and Anthony submitted a two-page motion last week to the
federal judge. Flynn’s sentencing will be based on his 2017 guilty plea
to special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors for one count of lying
to the FBI. The guilty plea has been a source of contention in news
reports, after evidence and testimony surfaced that the FBI special
agents that interviewed Flynn in January, 2017 didn’t believe he was
lying. Both former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka interviewed
Flynn about his phone conversation with then Russian Ambassador to the
U.S. Sergey Kislyak. The interview was conducted just as Flynn began his
then role as National Security Advisor for Trump.
Former FBI Director James Comey joked about the bureau’s interview with Flynn. Comey said in an interview that he used tactics he would not
ordinarily use because the then fledgling Trump administration was
unorganized at the beginning. Basically, he and former FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe discouraged Flynn from asking White House
general counsel to sit in on the interview. Flynn, according to several
source with knowledge, had no idea he was being targeted by the FBI for
an investigation.
“I sent them. Something we’ve, I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized…administration,”
Comey said. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe made a similar
statement regarding Flynn, which was uncovered by congressional
investigators.
Flynn’s attorneys said
in the filing that they had been notified “he is terminating Covington
& Burling LLP as his counsel and has already retained new counsel
for this matter.” Powell is the author of the New York Times best seller and tell-all book Licensed To Lie,which exposed the corruption within the justice system. The book is based on the case Powell won against prosecutor Andrew Weissmann,when he was deputy and later director of the Enron Task Force. Weissmann served as Mueller’s second in command for the
special counsel investigation into the Trump campaign, despite the fact
that his tactics have been highly criticized by both judges and
colleagues. He was called unscrupulous and has had several
significant issues raised about how he operated during the Mueller
inquiry into Trump campaign officials, including Flynn.
He prosecuted the accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP, which ended in
the collapse of the firm and 85,000 jobs lost world wide. Maureen
Mahoney took the case to the Supreme Court, and Powell consulted.
Mahoney overturned Weissmann’s conviction and the decision was reversed unanimously by the court. Powell has openly stated in columns and on cable
networks that Weissmann’s dirty tactics of withholding exculpatory
evidence and threatening witnesses to garner prosecutions should have
had him disbarred long ago.
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