The federal judge overseeing Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s case just issued a stunning order and heads are going to roll.
Judge Emmet Sullivan made public that Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony, Flynn’s former crooked attorney’s “shall re-execute a search of every document and communication pertaining to the firm’s representation of Mr. Flynn. It is FURTHER ORDERED that Covington & Burling LLP is FORTHWITH DIRECTED to produce to Mr. Flynn’s successor counsel all documents or communications concerning the firm’s representation of Mr. Flynn that were not previously transferred in the rolling productions. It is FURTHER ORDERED that Covington & Burling LLP shall file a notice of compliance with this Order by no later than 12:00 PM on May 4, 2020.”
Before the ruling was made public a seven-page filing from the Covington attorneys showed that they withheld thousands of documents for a year from Flynn’s new legal defense team.
“Covington has now re-executed the email collection and searches on the broader set of emails, correcting the error made as a result of the miscommunication. In so doing, we again used electronic search terms and manual reviews to target documents in the client file. This effort yielded an additional set of approximately 6,800 documents and emails (including attachments) that were not produced during the client file transfer in July 2019,” Kelner and Anthony said, adding that “these documents, comprising approximately 1% of the 669,800 total documents transferred in this case, were produced to successor counsel today.”
Convington claims that is was an “unintentional miscommunication involving the firms technology.”
Flynn’s new team also just received evidence from the Justice Department that many believe will exonerate him.
“The government produced to Mr. Flynn stunning Brady evidence that proves Mr. Flynn’s allegations of having been deliberately set up and framed by corrupt agents at the top of the FBI,” said Powell’s [Flynn’s attorney] Friday filing on the public docket. “The government has deliberately suppressed this evidence from the inception of this prosecution — knowing there was no crime by Mr. Flynn.”
Flynn’s team also believes they have found misconduct between the FBI and his previous defense team. What is being revealed in the Flynn case is unprecedented and when the dust clears General Flynn may end up the head of the FBI.
