NEW: U.S. Justice Department Moves to Drop Charges Against RI’s General Flynn
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NEW: U.S. Justice Department Moves to Drop Charges Against RI’s General Flynn
Flynn, who had sought to withdraw his guilty plea, was still awaiting sentencing when U.S. prosecutors when DOJ filed a motion.
Speaking to reporters at the White House after the motion was filed, Trump said Flynn was “an innocent man” and a “warrior"
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Last week GoLocal reported that there were growing reports that Rhode Island native and URI grad General Flynn would be exonerated after new information is disclosed.
Then, the Wall Street Journal reported that “A federal judge on Wednesday unsealed new documents in former national security adviser Mike Flynn’s criminal case that his lawyers say are evidence the government tried to set him up in a 2017 interview that led to his departure from the Trump administration and subsequent indictment on a charge of lying.”
“The documents consist of two redacted email exchanges as well as one page of handwritten notes by an unidentified official that appeared to involve Federal Bureau of Investigation preparations for Mr. Flynn’s interview. In the handwritten notes, which are dated Jan. 24, 2017—the day of the Flynn interview—the author writes: ‘What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?’” wrote the WSJ.
This is just the latest twist in a three-plus-year odyssey of Flynn, who rose to the highest level of President Donald Trump’s administration when he was named Trump's first National Security Advisor and occupied an office just feet away from the President in the west wing of the White House.
“These are incredibly disturbing allegations. If true, then General Flynn, as a private citizen, aided the Kremlin in undercutting President Obama just months after Russia interfered in our elections,' said Cicilline at the time.