JUST IN: Former US attorney Jessie Liu resigns from Treasury Dept. after President Trump withdrew her nomination as a top Treasury official. Liu was formerly the US attorney in Washington, DC, who headed the office that oversaw Roger Stone's prosecution.
for Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. The new filing said prosecutors believed probation would be an appropriate sentence for Flynn. They had previously asked that he spend up to six months behind bars.
"This is a horrible and very unfair situation,” the president wrote in a follow-up post on Twitter."The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!" Liu was not involved in the sentencing debacle, but the president apparently hasn't been happy with how her office handled the case initially, telling reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that"I thought the whole prosecution was ridiculous."
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