Former Mob Prosecutor Goes Hard in the Paint During Wild Hearing: Michael Flynn's 'Crime Was Committ
Former Mob Prosecutor Goes Hard in the Paint During Wild Hearing: Michael Flynn’s ‘Crime Was Committed in the West Wing’
COLIN KALMBACHERSep 29th, 2020, 5:26 pm
Judge Emmet Sullivan’s appointed amicus curiae offered a decidedly hard-charging approach during an increasingly contentious Tuesday hearing over whether or not to dismiss longstanding charges against retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn.
During his lengthy remarks, former mob prosecutor and judge John Gleeson took direct aim at Flynn–insisting on his guilt and later going after U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys by calling into question their basic legal understanding and courtroom skills.
Gleeson’s major point was that the DOJ had obviously, clearly and readily folded to pressure brought to bear upon their decisions by President Donald Trump. He dismissed the notion of holding an evidentiary hearing to cabin any potential inquiry into this issue because, he said, the briefs of the case were teeming and squirming with evidence of subterfuge and politically-influenced corruption.
“Part of your job,” the former judge said, “is to ask for the reasons.”
“Ask for the reasons and the factual basis for the reasons,” Gleeson continued. “And they have to be the real reasons. And [DOJ’s] reasons are so patently pretextual that the government feels the need to keep coming up with more of them. Sometimes, in another setting, there might be a reason to have a factual hearing to determine pretext, but here, it jumps off the record of the case.”
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