Jan 17, 2020 · General Michael Flynn, the 33 year war hero who has served with distinction, has not retained a good lawyer, he has retained a GREAT LAWYER, Sidney Powell. Best Wishes and Good Luck to them both!
Jun 28, 2020 · Flynn’s New Defense Sidney Powell, who became Mr. Flynn’s lawyer, frequently appeared on Fox News. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg One of Mr. Flynn’s most vocal defenders was Ms. Powell, a Texas-based...
Jan 30, 2020 · flynn’s current squad of attorneys contend that flynn’s original legal counsel with the prominent washington law firm covington & burling was too enmeshed in …
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had a reputation as a hard-nosed jurist with a disdain for prosecutorial misconduct.
A supporter of Mr. Flynn protests outside the federal courthouse in Washington.
District Court. In the agreement, Flynn pleaded guilty to "willfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the FBI regarding conversations with Russia's ambassador.
Flynn's former business associate Bijan Rafiekian was charged with illegally acting as an unregistered agent of Turkey. In 2019, a federal judge threw out the guilty verdicts against Rafiekian, citing insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction on either count.
Other awards and recognitions 1 The Ellis Island Medal of Honor 2 The 2012 Association of Special Operations Professionals Man of the Year award 3 Honorary doctorate from The Institute of World Politics 4 The William J. Casey Medal of Honor from the Institute of World Politics 5 The Director of Naval Intelligence's Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton Award for Leadership and Mentorship (first non-Navy recipient) 6 Federal Law Enforcement Foundation's Service to America Award
In a private e-mail that was leaked online, Colin Powell said he had heard in the DIA (apparently from later DIA director Vincent R. Stewart) that Flynn was fired because he was "abusive with staff, didn't listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc." According to The New York Times, Flynn exhibited a loose relationship with the truth, leading his subordinates to refer to Flynn's repeated dubious assertions as "Flynn facts".
On July 4, 2020, Flynn pledged an oath to the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, and as Trump sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in which he was defeated, Flynn suggested the president should suspend the Constitution, silence the press, and hold a new election under military authority.
Flynn was paid $530,000 by Alptekin for Flynn's lobbying work. Flynn only registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department later on March 8, 2017, for the work completed by November 2016. Flynn acknowledged his work may have benefited Turkey's government.
On January 22, 2017, Flynn was sworn in as the National Security Advisor. On February 13, 2017 , he resigned after information surfaced that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the nature and content of his communications with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.
On February 14, 2017, President Trump met with FBI Director James Comeyin the Oval Office and reportedly told him "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go", adding "he's a good guy." Comey subsequently testified that, "I had understood the President to be requesting that we drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversati…
Amid speculation that Flynn might be selected as Trump's 2016 running mate, he discussed his registration as a Democrat, stating "I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that Democratic party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party that I grew up around in my upbringing", and declined to say whether his affiliation had changed. He was a headlining speaker during the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention, and he w…
Flynn co-authored a report in January 2010 through the Center for a New American Security, entitled Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan. That report, which became influential, argued that U.S. intelligence agencies "must open their doors to anyone who is willing to exchange information, including Afghans and NGOs [non-governmental organizations] as well as the U.S. military and its allies".