New Flynn lawyer, approved by Trump, demands new trial period

Michael Flynn's new fighting lawyer joined federal prosecutors on Friday to ask for a further two-month delay before he sentenced Donald Trump's former national security adviser for lying to the FBI about his conversations with a senior official. Russian leader.

The request for 60 additional days came in a two-page joint status report filed before the Federal District Court Judge in Washington, DC, who will sentence Flynn for his guilty plea of ​​2017 with special advocate Robert Mueller.

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Flynn revealed last week that he had sacked his original legal team and retained instead Sidney Powell, fierce and outspoken critic of the Mueller investigation that President Donald Trump welcomed on Twitter as "BIG LAWYER".

Even with the new legal arrangement – which has sparked speculation, Flynn could back down on his guilty plea to federal prosecutors as part of a pardon for the presidential pardon – the former Trump's National Security Advisor seems to stick to his cooperation agreement.

This includes testifying at the government's next trial against his former trading partner, Bijan Rafiekian, scheduled to begin on July 15. Rafiekian was indicted last December for acting as an unregistered agent for Turkey in the United States and for related conspiracy.

Friday's status report, the first filing with Judge Emmet Sullivan of the US District Court since Powell became Flynn's lawyer, said Flynn "could be called to testify" during the Rafiekian trial at Alexandria, Virginia. After the trial, which should take place To last more than a week, the government said that Flynn 's cooperation would be over and that they would be willing to go ahead with his conviction.

Sullivan had been sentenced to condemn Flynn last December, but had instead postponed the proceedings to a later date. contentious hearing during which the judge strongly suggested to the former Trump adviser to take more time to fulfill his obligations of cooperation with the government.

The former Flynn lawyers, according to Friday's status report, have made their former client's record available to Powell "and they said it was bulky."

Powell said in the record that she was "already in possession of a tremendous amount of information to deal with". She added that her concerns about the amount of information to be considered for sentencing would be re-processed within 60 days, when the accused cooperation is likely to be complete. "