Well, well. Mike Flynn Moving To Withdraw Guilty Plea. Here's Why.

[Darth Omar]

He pled guilty to lying, in a deal created to give them a break on the more serious charges, should he recall his plea, then he would be subject to the more serious charges. He would have to be a fool to try that.

What serious charges are those?

[Nomad]

What serious charges are those?

What does it matter?

If he made a plea deal, it could only have been done to avoid going to trial on more serious charges.

Whatever those charges might be.

The point is, if Mueller had nothing more serious, the plea deal would never have happened.

[Jarod]

There’s a lesson here, lying to the FBI is a bad thing.

[Jarod]

He pled guilty to lying, in a deal created to give them a break on the more serious charges, should he recall his plea, then he would be subject to the more serious charges. He would have to be a fool to try that.

Flynn plead guilty to lying to the FBI, as a matter of law he is guilty.

[dukkha]

He pled guilty to lying, in a deal created to give them a break on the more serious charges, should he recall his plea, then he would be subject to the more serious charges. He would have to be a fool to try that.

unless the basis for the plea was prosecutorial misconduct..that would undermine any other charges as well

[dukkha]

Flynn plead guilty to lying to the FBI, as a matter of law he is guilty.

Nolo contendre can be withdrawn before sentencing, given misconduct

[Jarod]

Nolo contendre can be withdrawn before sentencing, given misconduct

So?

[Bourbon]

Mueller Just Made Many More People Much More Nervous





https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...mpression=true



Two business days, 14 new indictments. Bob Mueller grinds exceedingly slowly, but very, very fine. Today’s contestant is one Alex Van Der Zwaan, a lawyer whom Mueller’s team has indicted on charges that he lied to investigators regarding communications he had with Rick Gates, a former aide to Paul Manafort who, the evidence suggests, is singing a German opera to Mueller and his team at the moment. From CNN:
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Alex Van Der Zwaan, who is expected to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon, is also accused of lying about the failure to turn over an email communication to the special counsel's office. He was speaking with investigators about his work with international law firm Skadden Arps in 2012, when Manafort arranged for the firm to be hired by the Ukrainian Minister of Justice to prepare a report on the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko.


This may seem like a trivial bit of Tolstoyan intrigue, but it’s a signifying moment, too. It shows that Mueller is chasing every rat down every ratline. (So much for the talking point that the probe concluded last Friday with the indictment of the 13 Russians, who never will see the inside of an American courtroom.)
Skadden

Also, if the investigation is reaching into the white-shoe power law firms in Washington, a lot of important people are going to get very, very nervous. Many of them have nothing to do with anything Mueller is investigating, and those people are not going to be happy watching the spreading poison of this administration*’s leaching into their boardrooms. The reaction is likely to be fierce. Skadden Arps says it cut this guy loose a year ago.

It’s pretty much assured that Manafort is securely on a spit right now and that this latest indictment is just another slow turn over the fire. And Manafort is the man who knows all the secrets. One plea at a time, Mueller is establishing that the president* is inherently corrupt and that his candidacy and election were just two unusually successful operations in a continuing criminal enterprise.

[evince]

On Friday, Judge Emmet Sullivan issued an order in United States v. Flynn that, while widely unnoticed, reveals something fascinating: A motion by Michael Flynn to withdraw his guilty plea based on government misconduct is likely in the works.
With a protective order in place, Flynn’s attorneys should start receiving the required disclosures from the special counsel’s office. There is reason to believe these will include some bombshells.

First, we know from the recently released GOP House Intelligence Committee memo and the Grassley-Graham criminal referral of Christopher Steele, the FBI and DOJ withheld significant (and material, in my view) information in seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to conduct surveillance on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page. There is cause to believe the FISA court was connected to the criminal charge filed against Flynn because Contreras, who recused less than a week after accepting Flynn’s guilty plea, “is one of just three FISA court judges who sits in the District of Columbia, where it is likely the Trump-Russia FISA warrants were sought.”

Was other evidence withheld, either from the FISA court or from Flynn’s attorneys in negotiating a plea? Again, there is reason to believe so, given the players involved and the facts already uncovered.

Mueller must now provide Flynn all exculpatory evidence: Significantly, if the information is favorable to Flynn but the special counsel’s office believes it is immaterial, government attorneys must nonetheless provide the evidence to Sullivan to allow him to make the call. In other words, Mueller’s team cannot unilaterally decide what evidence matters, as the Department of Justice did in applying to the FISA court for a surveillance warrant on Page while withholding the key fact that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee paid for information crucial to the application.

However, there are enough shady characters involved to believe there will be something of significance. Then what?

Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor and author of “Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice,” writes that Flynn should withdraw his guilty plea and suggests that Sullivan, as “the country’s premier jurist experienced in the abuses of our Department of Justice, . . . is the best person to confront the egregious government misconduct that has led to and been perpetrated by the Mueller-Weissmann ‘investigation’ and to right the injustices that have arisen from it.”

Flynn’s attorneys now know what to do should Mueller’s team disclose such evidence. After the spanking Sullivan gave the prosecutors in the Stevens case, (Alaska sen. Ted Stevens case) Mueller is on notice as well.

Read more:
http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/19/...al-corruption/

a right wing idiot site

[Rune]

Yeah but these goof balls have their story and they’re sticking to it lol.

Such good little lemmings.

Why would a Ret. US General confess to lying if he didn't?

Idiot?
Tooth?
Bueller?
Anyone?

[Darth Omar]

Why would a Ret. US General confess to lying if he didn't?

Idiot?
Tooth?
Bueller?
Anyone?

To save his son?

[Jarod]

To save his son?

If he and his son were innocent why would they need saving?

[Cancel 2018.2]

Knew you didn't have any, ankle biter.

I do, but I asked you first. Provide your facts and I will do likewise.

Simple as that.

[Cancel 2018.2]

Is your name Yaya, LOL?

Did Flynn go back in time and unlie?
Idiot.

Once again you prove what an ignorant drunk shitstain you are. People plead guilty to lesser crimes they didn't actually commit all the time in a plea deal.

[Darth Omar]

If he and his son were innocent why would they need saving?

Why drag his son into it unless it was necessary?

Why was it so important to get Flynn?