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pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 01:12 AM Mar 2019

Some possibly important Michael Flynn development may be happening before April 5th.

There was a hearing today because Flynn's business partner, who is being prosecuted in connection with work he did for Turkey, has been demanding to see some reports of interviews Flynn gave to the Mueller team. The partner has been provided with some of the interviews, but he wanted all of them. (Ostensibly to make his case that Flynn's a liar.)

Mueller's team asked the judge for a delay, saying that there was some information in them about ongoing investigations that needed to remain confidential -- but most of the problem could be moot by April 5th.

So what could happen by April 5th? Inquiring minds want to know.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/03/13/mike-flynns-cooperation-and-the-giglio-clock/

Flynn’s aborted sentencing, we know some of it pertains to Trump’s potentially criminal conduct, and the other investigation on which Flynn cooperated (which is likely the CI side targeting Russia) appears to be even more sensitive than the potentially criminal conduct of the President of the United States. Kian is doing this to try to make going to trial more costly for the government. There’s abundant reason to believe that the government doesn’t need Flynn at trial for anything more than to certify the many emails on which he and Kian conducted their sleazy influence peddling, but given that he’s an unindicted co-conspirator, Kian is absolutely within his right to pretend that Flynn will be central.

This was supposed to be heard at a hearing last Friday, which got bumped to this Friday. But yesterday, the government just asked to have the hearing bumped four more weeks, to April 12, with their response to Kian’s request due April 5 (this request first reported by Josh Gerstein). That timing is pretty interesting, given that the government envisions finding “a potential resolution” that would moot Kian’s request.

The 302s of General Flynn’s interviews relating entirely to matters other than the pending charges against the defendant contain information concerning a number of sensitive matters, including ongoing investigations. The government is attempting to coordinate within the Department of Justice on a potential resolution that could moot much of the defendant’s request. However, this coordination requires time because of the various interests involved.
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