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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,025 posts) Tue Dec 18, 2018, 04:12 PM Dec 2018

Flynn sentencing abruptly postponed to allow for cooperation

WASHINGTON — A federal judge abruptly postponed the sentencing hearing Tuesday for Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, after a stunning hearing in which the judge accused Flynn of selling out his country.

The delay allows Flynn to continue cooperating with the special counsel's Russia probe and get credit for it in his punishment. Flynn pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts, just days after Trump was inaugurated.

"Arguably you sold your country out," U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan told Flynn in a tongue-lashing that raised the prospect that the judge could send the retired Army lieutenant general to prison, even though prosecutors have recommended against prison time, citing his cooperation in the Russia probe.

Sullivan told Flynn "I can't hide my disgust, my disdain" at the crime.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-judge-delays-sentencing-for-michael-flynn/ar-BBR6gow?li=BBnb7Kz

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Flynn sentencing abruptly postponed to allow for cooperation (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2018 OP

Sing sing sing! Achilleaze Dec 2018 #1

Sing child sing Fullduplexxx Dec 2018 #2

they keep getting it WRONG Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #3

Thank you for posting. Makes more sense Raven123 Dec 2018 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Raven123 Dec 2018 #4

He can't be pardoned DUgosh Dec 2018 #5

Are you sure? Is his guilty plea final? Raven123 Dec 2018 #7

Yes he can. You can be pardoned before you're even charged ala Nixon. Nevilledog Dec 2018 #8

Sure he can fescuerescue Dec 2018 #9

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

1. Sing sing sing!

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Tue Dec 18, 2018, 04:14 PM

Dec 2018

Fullduplexxx

(7,864 posts)

2. Sing child sing

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Tue Dec 18, 2018, 04:20 PM

Dec 2018

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,349 posts)

3. they keep getting it WRONG

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Tue Dec 18, 2018, 04:34 PM

Dec 2018

Over and over, news outlets screw up Mueller's sentencing recommendation.

This: "prosecutors have recommended against prison time" is WRONG.

Here is what the sentencing memo actually said:

"a sentence at the low end of the guideline range—including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration—is appropriate and warranted."

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/4/18126388/mueller-michael-flynn-sentencing-memo-read

These are NOT equivalent.