A federal judge is signaling that he may pursue perjury or contempt charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn
A federal judge is signaling that he might pursue perjury or contempt charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn over his effort to abandon an earlier guilty plea to a charge of lying to the FBI.
Gleeson, who was appointed to the federal bench in New York by President Bill Clinton and retired to enter private practice in 2016, has already staked out a position deeply skeptical of Attorney General William Barr’s decision to abandon the Flynn prosecution. The ex-judge co-authored“Government motions to dismiss at this stage are virtually unheard of,” Gleeson and his co-authors wrote in The Washington Post.
Flynn’s lead attorney did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment, but she did retweet a message noting the judge’s order and suggesting that he might have been acting at the behest of former President Barack Obama.With his guilty plea in December 2017 to a single, felony charge of making false statements to the FBI, Flynn became the only Trump White House official to face a criminal charge in the Mueller investigation.
In exchange for leniency, Flynn also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and did so extensively — sitting for 20 interviews about a slew of different matters probed by Mueller’s team and other lawyers.
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