WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has retained conservative lawyer and commentator Sidney Powell as his new counsel as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts in special counsel Robert ...

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WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Tuesday accepted a decision by U.S. prosecutors not to comply with his demand to make public transcripts of recorded conversations between Michael Flynn and Russia’s ambassador to the United States in December 2016. In ...

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WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday ordered that prosecutors make public a transcript of a phone call that former national security adviser Michael Flynn tried hard to hide with a lie: his conversation with a Russian ambassador in late ...

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WASHINGTON – For a full eight minutes, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan read aloud an inventory of Michael Flynn’s lies – describing his “disgust” that President Donald Trump’s national security adviser sought to deceive FBI agents while “on the premises ...

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WASHINGTON – After months of cooperation and more than a dozen meetings, special counsel Robert Mueller argued this month that Michael Flynn should receive no prison time for his substantial assistance in the Russia investigation. A veteran judge saw things ...

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WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Wednesday ordered both former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the special counsel to turn over additional investigative records describing his January 2017 interview with FBI agents – a conversation in which Flynn later ...

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WASHINGTON – Special counsel Robert Mueller III on Tuesday recommended that former national security adviser Michael Flynn serve no prison time, citing his “substantial assistance” with several ongoing investigations, according to a new court filing. Flynn was forced out of ...

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WASHINGTON – In Michael Flynn’s first appearance in federal court since pleading guilty seven months ago, his lawyers confirmed that he continues to work with the government and is eager to be sentenced and wrap up his case. But it ...

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President Donald Trump’s legal team plans to cast former national security adviser Michael Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aides of any wrongdoing, according to three people familiar with the ...

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On the day that set in motion former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea and cooperation with the special counsel, President-elect Donald Trump was ensconced at his Mar-a-Lago resort, contending with the latest news from the Obama White House. ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators about former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a person familiar with the investigation confirmed to The Associated Press. The person ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will provide documents to the Senate intelligence committee as part of its probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, The Associated Press has learned. Flynn’s decision Tuesday came as President ...

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