Mueller asks court to schedule Flynn sentencing
Source: The Hill
Special counsel Robert Mueller is asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to move forward with the sentencing of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, nearly 10 months after he pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his Russia contacts.
The latest development indicates that Mueller believes he has gotten all that he can or needs from Flynn in the nearly 10 months since he admitted to lying to FBI investigators about his Russia contacts. While Mueller will not be precluded from calling Flynn to testify at any forthcoming trials, his sentencing will effectively mark an end to his cooperation in the probe.
Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to FBI agents in December and agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s probe, which includes exploring whether there was coordination between President Trump’s campaign and Moscow.
Flynn served on Trump’s campaign and briefly in the administration as the president’s national security adviser. He was forced to resign from the post in February 2017, when it was revealed that he misled Vice President Pence and other administration officials about his contacts with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
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