Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s relationship with federal prosecutors appears to have soured, prompting a decision by government lawyers to drop him as a witness at a trial for his former business partner
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s relationship with federal prosecutors appears to have soured, prompting a decision by government lawyers to drop Flynn as a witness at a looming trial for his former business partner, newly unsealed court records show.
“The prosecutors have been adamant Mr. Flynn testify that he authorized filing the FARA form knowing and intending that it contain false statements,” Powell wrote. “Mr. Flynn cannot give that testimony because it is not true.” Prosecutors say that Flynn is now backing away from some of the statements he made to Mueller’s team and in court during his guilty plea in December 2017. At that session, Flynn acknowledged that he “made materially false statements and omissions” in FARA filings about the Turkey-related lobbying, but Flynn now maintains he never read the FARA submissions he signed, the court documents say. He also claims he never lied to his lawyers as they prepared the filing.
The government’s plan to treat Flynn as a co-conspirator could ease admissions of emails and other memos related to the case, but Kian’s lawyers asked U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Trenga to deny the prosecution’s ability to put in new evidence as a result of the recent change. It’s unclear whether prosecutors consider their current disagreement with Flynn so significant that they will accuse him of breaching his plea agreement. That could expose him to new charges.
It’s unclear how Flynn’s judge will view the latest developments, but prosecutors and Flynn’s lawyers seem likely to offer starkly different assessments of whether he or the government is responsible for the breakdown.
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