Posted on 06/06/2019 10:35:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
A court filing Thursday revealed that Flynn had notified his attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony that he is “terminating” them as his counsel and has already hired new lawyers to replace them.
(Reuters) – Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has dismissed the legal team that represented him in his dealings with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe and retained new counsel, according to a court filing on Thursday.
The move to dismiss lawyers Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony of Covington & Burling LLP comes ahead of Flynn’s sentencing, which was postponed in December after the judge in the case criticized a memo filed by his lawyers to the court.
“As only sentencing remains in this case, sentencing has not yet been scheduled, and General Flynn has already retained new counsel, withdrawal at this time would not be prejudicial to any of the parties or otherwise inconsistent with the interests of justice,” Kelner and Anthony wrote.
‘A name everyone will recognize’…
NEW: I'm told General Flynn's new lawyer is very high profile and appears on TV regularly
"A name everyone will recognize"
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 6, 2019
JUST IN: Flynn abruptly fires his lawyers ahead of sentencing https://t.co/5q116WOcFB pic.twitter.com/KDfPwpXNzL
— The Hill (@thehill) June 6, 2019
NEW: Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has decided to dismiss his lawyers and has retained new counsel, according to a court filing by his former legal team on Thursday https://t.co/CnWJnwFTVQ pic.twitter.com/yRaY6lMYnV
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) June 6, 2019
BREAKING: Michael FLYNN has fired his counsel and is retaining a new lawyer ahead of his sentencing. pic.twitter.com/T5kqfassDX
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 6, 2019
The whole having to sell his house in order to pay people who had him plead guilty to a crime he didn’t commit thing probably didn’t wear well over time.
that kabuki gets him another 6 month or whatever reprieve from sentencing.
maybe the end game is coming?
How does that get him another 6 months from sentencing? What is your source?
My guess..DiGenova
I tell you, every day, another turn.
I hope its Powell.
A little slow on the BREAKING NEWS there. This story was first posted about two hours ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3754945/posts
Rice's email purported to document part of the strange meeting Obama held.
Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team........
NOTE: Rice was being replaced by Gen Flynn.
Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.
Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.
If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.
What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new Trump administration?
We can easily surmise that
<><>the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party;
<><>that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele;
<><>that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele;
<><>that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.
These were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.
There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.
The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything.
And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.
Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from Gen Flynn, her successor, during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.
I’m with you! DiGenova has a “perpetual erection” for the Deep State. Giuliani is past his sell by date, Dirtyshitts is a RAT and Levin doesn’t have a practice! GO Joe!
Someone tipped Flynn off on info from Barr investigation.
A little slow on the breaking news. The story was first posted 2 hours ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3754945/posts
But FOXNEWS will report it five days later. /s
Never understood why Flynn hired the law firm Covington & Burling in the first place. It is closely tied to the Democratic party. His attorney’s could have had the charges dismissed within a month or two. Instead, they worked against his interests and milked him for everything he owned.
I suspect Flynn’s new attorney will have this case dismissed in short order and then sue the previous attorneys for the fees they charged. They should also be disbarred.
Avenatti?
Only kidding.
“DiGenova?.............Dershowitz?............... “
Good guesses. Wouldn’t Geoffrey Feiger be a hoot?
Better very late in the game than not at all, I suppose.
All that money he’s spent may never be recovered, but when one’s freedom is at stake, you get desperate.
No one wants to end up like Manafort, now packing his one bag for Riker’s Island.
You know I love the pie in the sky enthusiasm and optimism expressed by so many people. You actually think that Flynn who has pleaded guilty will just immediately have his charges dismissed and that his former attorneys from a major law firm will be magically disbarred.
It’s possible that he is going to take a new approach and I’d love to see it but we will have to await actual developments. It’s very possible that he replaced his lawyers to save money as well as to set himself up for a possible pardon.
My guess is DiGenova or his wife?????
Avanatti?
LOL!!....................he is in NEED OF A LAWYER!............
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