We’re thinking Flynn’s first set of lawyers were roommates with this guy
Re: the FBI/Flynn Matter (our opinions)
1) Exactly who were General Flynn’s original lawyers? Some would like to know. They must be, a), the WORST, most incompetent lawyers in the history of ‘jurisprudence’, or, b), they are the most dishonest, unconscionable, dishonorable attorneys, ever; if the latter, their law schools should either apologize or revoke their diplomas, and get into another line of education work. To think those schools could still be “educating” lawyers is frightening to contemplate! (Robt. Kelner, Univ of Virginia Law school; Stephen Anthony, Columbia Law School). And we think they owe General Flynn a refund!
2) If you are Democrat (one who votes for Democratic Party candidates), you are one of two things: a) either the most gullible, misinformed, politically ignorant person, proof of which is that you would actually vote to elect people like Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, Dick (both a name and a title) Durbin a Schumer or a Pelosi, etc, or, b) you are an incredibly persistent, unbelievably arrogant, self-identified ‘intellectually superior’ individual, proof of which is the same as for the willfully ignorant, most gullible, misinformed people formerly described.
dlh
Maybe read these articles first in order to generate the proper disgust with the Politico article of last year (set forth below)
BREAKING: DOJ Dropping Case Against Michael Flynn After Revelation of FBI Entrapment Plot
In Dealing with Flynn, Comey’s FBI Acted Like the KGB
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Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges
By Politico, 06/06/2019 (Bold our emphasis)
“But the move also comes amid a yawning disconnect between the approach adopted by the well-respected legal team Flynn has used since the start of the Russia probe and the combative rhetoric from many of his friends and family members, who have accused Mueller’s team of deception and argued that Flynn was tricked into pleading guilty. Some have urged Flynn to seek to withdraw his plea.”
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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 longtime 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 Flynn’s punishment stemming from his 2017 guilty plea to special counsel Robert Mueller’s 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 Flynn’s new legal team and declined comment when asked by POLITICO about 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.
Flynn’s decision to change attorneys at this late stage is unusual and has triggered speculation in legal and political circles that he’s considering backing out of his plea deal with the government in a play for a presidential pardon. Sometimes defendants switch attorneys for mundane reasons such as financial issues, and Flynn’s allies have complained that the case has essentially bankrupted him.
But the move also comes amid a yawning disconnect between the approach adopted by the well-respected legal team Flynn has used since the start of the Russia probe and the combative rhetoric from many of his friends and family members, who have accused Mueller’s team of deception and argued that Flynn was tricked into pleading guilty. Some have urged Flynn to seek to withdraw his plea.
Jack Posobiec, a pro-Trump provocateur who has joined forces with the Flynn family in calling for the retired Army lieutenant general’s exoneration and pardon, wrote Thursday on Twitter that he was told the new Flynn lawyer is “very high profile and appears on TV regularly.” The post added to the speculation over several familiar faces from the Russia probe, including Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and the husband-wife duo of Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, informal Trump advisers who nearly joined the president’s legal team last spring.
In a text message to POLITICO, Giuliani said he was not Flynn’s new lawyer. Dershowitz replied that he’s not representing Flynn. DiGenova in an email wrote, “We are not at liberty to discuss.”
Legal experts say the plea deal that Kelner and Anthony cut with Mueller’s team more than a year ago was a generous one, making it possible that Flynn would receive only probation. Trying to back out of the deal now could open Flynn to a variety of charges, including criminal liability related to unregistered lobbying work he did in 2016 on behalf of a foreign client allegedly acting as a front for Turkey.
Flynn’s ex-business partner and the alleged middleman were indicted in the case, but Flynn escaped charges, apparently due to his plea deal. In a joint status report in March, attorneys for Flynn and Mueller told U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan that Flynn could testify in the mid-July trial against his former partner, Bijan Rafiekian.
