WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn told a judge Tuesday that she recently updated President Donald Trump on the case and asked him not to issue a pardon for her client. Attorney General William Barr, who appointed a U.S. attorney from Missouri to investigate the handling of the case, moved in May to dismiss the case despite Flynn’s own guilty plea in the Russia investigation. At the time, the FBI was investigating whether the Trump campaign had coordinated with Russia to tip the election in Trump’s favor. Sullivan has so far resisted efforts to dismiss the prosecution and appointed a former federal judge to argue against the Justice Department’s position. Lawyers for the federal government revived their efforts to persuade Sullivan that dismissing the Flynn case was in the interests of justice.

Source: Huffington Post September 30, 2020 09:33 UTC