The Right Opinion: The Michael Flynn Saga Part 2 - a podcast by Wayne Noon

The Right Opinion: The Michael Flynn Saga Part 2
 
PART 2 - The Legal Battle
 
Michael Flynn prosecution: A timeline of Trump’s ex-national security adviser’s case (Fox News)
 
Feb 2017 - The FBI interviews Steele’s primary subsource and discovers that Steele was full of shit. 
Rosenstein memo tasked Mueller to investigate already-discredited Steele allegations (JustTheNews.com)
 
2/13/17 - Flynn resigned from his position as the National Security Advisor.
5/17/17 - Mueller Appointed
5/19/17 - Strzok to Page:  “There’s no big there there” (refering to the Russian investigation, as confirmed under oath by Lisa Page.)  
12/1/17 - Flynn pleads Guilty to lying to federal investigators.
Days later… the judge recuses himself with no reason disclosed.
2/1/18 - Mueller/Flynn’s attorneys file a joint status report to push back sentencing.  
Where are the transcripts? Flynn-Kislyak calls stay secret as requests for them grow (CNN)
More Delays to sentencing occur on:
-May 1, June 29 and Aug. 21, 2018
9/17/18 - Mueller says that matter is now ready for sentencing.
12/4/18 - Mueller suggests a lenient sentence cuz he’s such a nice guy and all. 
12/9/18 - Comey, thinking he’s still the hero in all of this, publicly, and brazenly, admits to skirting around all known protocols to question Flynn.
12/9/18 - Flynn’s lawyers finally start to wake up
3/24/19 - Barr reveals the “principle conclusions” of the Mueller Report.
4/18/19 - The full redacted Mueller Report is released
5/29/19 - Mueller closes the SCO’s investigation into Russian Election Interference.
June 2019 - Flynn fires his legal team and hires Sidney Powell, and the tides begin to turn. It’s amazing what can happen when you have a lawyer who gives a shit.
August 2019 - Powell files a motion to delay sentencing. She also notes in the filing that the government was denying her request for security clearances needed to review classified material pertaining to Flynn, including transcripts and recordings of phone calls that “supposedly underpin the charges against” him.
9/10/19 - Sidney Powell wants the original 302, which she claims was written by Pientka, not Strzok.
@CBS_Herridge's Tweet / Re: Judge Sullivan "Things happen"
October 2019 - DOJ attorneys fire back:
10/25/2019 - Sidney Poweell files a motion to urge the court to dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct.
10/29/2019 - Jude Sullivan responds by cancelling a hearing in response to Powell’s motion.
 
November 2019 - Judge Sullivan postpones sentencing.
 
Dec 2019 - Judge Sullivan denies Flynn the ability to request exculpatory information being withheld by the FBI. 
 
1/7/2020 - DOJ Attorneys now recommend up to 6 months in prison. Mueller suggested no jail time, so why are they requesting jail time now? Because Flynn’s fighting back and they don’t like it.
 
1/14/2020 - Flynn moved to withdraw his guilty plea for lying to the FBI, citing “bad faith, vindictiveness, and a breach of the plea agreement” by the government. 
 
1/16/20 - Judge Sullivan pushes sentencing back again.
 
Feb. 9, 2020 - Federal prosecutors proposed delaying approaching deadlines in the Flynn case.  Prosecutors argued that Flynn’s former attorneys should testify after he claimed to receive ineffective assistance from them.
 
Feb. 10, 2020 - Sullivan indefinitely postponed Flynn’s sentencing date after federal prosecutors filed their motion to delay the deadlines.
 
Feb. 14, 2020 - Barr tapped U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Jeff Jensen, to review Flynn’s case.
4/9/2020 - Covington Hands Over More Files to Mike Flynn, After 'Inadvertently' Missing Them Earlier (Law.com)
4/29/2020 - DOJ releases new docs related to FBI misconduct.
5/7/2020 - DOJ drops the case against Flynn
5/12/2020 - Judge Sullivan decides to hear amicus briefs on the matter, assigns former U.S. District Judge John Gleeson as amicus curiae (friend of the court).
How Should Judge Sullivan Determine if the Government's Motion to Dismiss the M

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