Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the then-Russian ambassador to the United States
, including about his request that Russia not escalate tensions with the U.S. in response to sanctions imposed by the Obama administration for election interference.
At the time, he was the closest Trump associate to agree to co-operate in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. He met repeatedly with prosecutors over the following months as they investigated whether the Trump campaign co-ordinated with Russia to sway the election.He was to have been sentenced in December 2018.
He also fired his lawyers and replaced them with new ones who have taken a strikingly contentious stance toward Mueller’s investigation and accused prosecutors of withholding documents and other information that they said was favourable to Flynn. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan rejected each of the defence arguments in a lengthy opinion earlier this month.
Flynn is one of a half dozen Trump associates charged in the Mueller investigation. All six have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty in a jury trial.Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines.
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