A federal judge signaled Tuesday that he wasn’t ready to toss out the case against Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, after DOJ said it would drop all charges against Flynn last week
A federal judge signaled Tuesday that he wasn’t ready to toss out the case against Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, after the Justice Department said it would drop all charges against Flynn last week.
Under the leadership of Attorney General William Barr, the Justice Department took the extraordinary step last week of dropping its case against Flynn — the latest example of the Trump administration’s attempt to undo any outcomes of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea said last week that even if Flynn lied, he shouldn’t have been investigated and his actions were not relevant to the FBI’s probe into Russian interference.
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