Judge once again delays Michael Flynn's sentencing until further notice
A federal judge on Wednesday once again delayed the criminal sentencing of Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's first national security advisor.
Lawyers for Flynn and the Department of Justice had written to Judge Emmet Sullivan in a court filing Tuesday, asking to postpone the upcoming sentencing hearing until the court makes a decision on whether to compel the government to hand certain information over to Flynn.
The filing in U.S. District Court in Washington also notes that a report from the DOJ's Office of Inspector General, expected to be publicly released within the next several weeks, is expected to "examine topics related to several matters raised by" Flynn.
Flynn's sentencing hearing had been scheduled for Dec. 18 — a year after the retired Army lieutenant general had first appeared in court to be sentenced on a charge of lying to FBI agents about his contacts with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the weeks before Trump's inauguration.
But Flynn chose to take Sullivan's offer to hold off on that sentencing after he was done cooperating with then-special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe. Flynn made his decision after receiving a brutal tongue-lashing in court from the judge, who told him "arguably you sold your country out" and warned him he might send Flynn to jail if he did not agree to postpone his sentencing.
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