JUDGE SULLIVAN/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Tuesday [Dec. 8, 2020] dismissed the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn but pointedly noted that a pardon Flynn received from the president last month does not mean that he is innocent. The order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan was expected […]
Category: Judge Sullivan
9/29/2020
JUDGE SULLIVAN/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A U.S. judge on Tuesday [Sep. 29, 2020] began examining the Justice Department’s bid to dismiss the criminal case against Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan comes after an appeals court last […]
6/12/2020
JUDGE SULLIVAN/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A divided federal appeals court on Friday seemed reluctant to order the judge presiding over former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s prosecution to dismiss the case ahead of scheduled arguments in the trial court next month… If a majority of the three-judge panel declines to intervene, then oral arguments over […]
6/10/2020
JUDGE GLEESON/JUDGE SULLIVAN/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s request under Attorney General Bill Barr to drop its criminal case against Michael Flynn, presiding U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan asked retired judge John Gleeson to write an amicus curiae brief opposing the decision. On June 10, 2020, Gleeson submitted an 82-page report […]