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Michael Flynn’s Fired Lawyers Just Filed Court Papers to Reappear in His Case
Law and Crime ^ | 5/14/2020 | JERRY LAMBE

Posted on 05/14/2020 2:43:51 PM PDT by Beave Meister

The federal judge overseeing Michael Flynn’s criminal prosecution has directed the law firm that Flynn fired to reappear as an interested party in the controversial proceeding. On Thursday, that firm complied by filing a notice of appearance.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the clerk of the court to “add Covington & Burling LLP (‘Covington’) as an interested party in this matter and directed counsel for Covington to file a notice of appearance on behalf of Covington as an interested party.” John E. Hall, the chair of Covington Burling’s global litigation practice, submitted the filing.

The order follows the highly controversial decision by the DOJ last week to file a motion to drop the criminal charges against Flynn, despite the retired lieutenant general having already pleaded guilty to lying to agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The DOJ now believes the Flynn case was an inappropriate setup.

Flynn was initially represented by Covington & Burling and attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony when he pleaded guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI. However, he fired his legal team soon thereafter and replaced it with a new of team of attorneys led by conservative lawyer Sidney Powell. The new attorneys immediately accused Flynn’s previous legal team of ineffective assistance of counsel.

“Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea (and later failure to withdraw it) was the result of the ineffective assistance of counsel provided by his former lawyers, who were in the grip of intractable conflicts of interest, and severely prejudiced him,” Flynn’s current legal team wrote in a January motion to withdraw his guilty plea.

“That pernicious conflict infected and prejudiced his defense until he retained new counsel in 2019.”

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To: Beave Meister

Re-appear? As what, a$$hats?


41 posted on 05/14/2020 3:18:52 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Beave Meister

Why would they be “Interested parties”.

Is the biased judge grasping at straws?
Do the fired lawyers pay depend on Flynn going to prison?
What interest do they have at this point?


42 posted on 05/14/2020 3:21:19 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Beave Meister

Someone correct me if I am wrong but I thought I read that the Senate Intel Committee offered Flynn immunity for his testimony but his lawyers refused without consulting him.


43 posted on 05/14/2020 3:21:30 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: SaintDismas

You can’t beat something with nothing. The classified material regarding the Flynn investigation is being released by the DNI. The Media would like an excuse to dismiss the more startling revelations close to Obama because he’s neck deep in this. Blowing smoke about the eventual dismissal of the Flynn case is “that something” the Media needs.


44 posted on 05/14/2020 3:23:34 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: Beave Meister

Flynn officially moved to withdraw his guilty plea in January. Was he granted that request? Is this perjury charge based upon his making that guilty plea, which would be seen as lying to the court? If so, how would he even be guilty of something that came from a fabricated entrapment? Judge Sullivan is no judge to unwind this legal Shift Show. We need to recuse Sullivan, immediately!


45 posted on 05/14/2020 3:23:54 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Yardstick

Yup. I figure that Bammy just jumped the gun on the Dem talking points.


46 posted on 05/14/2020 3:31:06 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: CJ Wolf

My guess is he was not on the phone call, but the call was “leaked” to the media who in turn dutifully published it so all the Deep State foot soldiers like Sullivan could coordinate their talking points.


47 posted on 05/14/2020 3:32:30 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: originalbuckeye

Hussein’s halal paw prints are all over this.

The NSA meta data on Sullivan would be verrrryyy interesting.


48 posted on 05/14/2020 3:35:48 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Dan in Wichita

that makes sense. Still who was on that call?


49 posted on 05/14/2020 3:38:19 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #Godwins)
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To: Beave Meister

He’s trying to set up a battle between Flynn and his former attorneys. Flynn says they gave him bad advice and withheld evidence from him. The judge figures the lawyers will dispute that.


50 posted on 05/14/2020 3:41:27 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Beave Meister

I personally think this works to Trumps advantage. It keeps the story in the news. More shoes will fall and further proceedings will make sure that happens. It also demonstrates that the judiciary is in this up to their eyeballs. The judiciary has been complicit I all this. They need to be exposed.


51 posted on 05/14/2020 3:46:25 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: dblshot

I’m with you. There is almost nothing they can testify to, that won’t violate the attorney-client privilege. And they are clearly being brought into court to impeach his motion and testimony. This is true banana republic stuff, and Roberts had better put a stop to it fast if he wants any of his waning credibility to survive.


52 posted on 05/14/2020 3:47:44 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Brilliant
They withheld exculpatory material and did not turn it over to Powell until the DOJ started to release stuff showing that they had material they had not turned over.

If Flynn pled without knowing of some of the exculpatory evidence in the hands of his attorneys then their conflict of interest is not mute but implicates them in the execution of gross malpractice.

53 posted on 05/14/2020 3:50:30 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

He’s going to ask if they held it back. They will no doubt say no.


54 posted on 05/14/2020 3:55:30 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: LoveMyFreedom

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Both


55 posted on 05/14/2020 3:57:34 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: jjotto
"The judge wants to give them a chance to avoid disbarment and a bankrupting civil suit."

Because his good buddy Eric Holder works at the same firm.

56 posted on 05/14/2020 4:00:02 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: CJ Wolf
"who was he talking too anyway?"

Probably the same ones he met with in the Oval Office on January 5, 2017: Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Biden, Rice, Yates.

57 posted on 05/14/2020 4:01:28 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Paladin2
"The very essence of Plea “Bargains” is lying."

Plus, someone pointed out on a thread last night that you are not under oath when you make your plea.

58 posted on 05/14/2020 4:03:08 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: nd76
"I’ll take a shot at this one: the judge wants to be able to examine Covington’s lawyers under oath to try to refute General Flynn’s claims of ineffective assistance of counsel which were made by Sidney Powel"

Isn't that the job of a prosecutor? Sullivan wants to be prosecutor, Judge and jury in this case. He can only be one.

59 posted on 05/14/2020 4:04:34 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Brilliant
THey didn't turn it over until a few weeks ago. Sydney has the records of transmission and started filing as it came in pissing off Sullivan who told here to wait until she had it all. They started releasing it after the DOJ started releasing material including material they had already long ago released to Covington Burling, inducing them to turn over their withheld files to Sydney.

Covington Burling is screwed. Perhaps the deal here is to sanction them for Flynn's fees and costs, more or less making Flynn whole so he doesn't have damages for the civil suits he will start dropping on people once this is dismissed.

That isn't my theory and I can't really believe it, but I did here it today and pass it on.

60 posted on 05/14/2020 4:06:21 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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