Flynn, who has been cooperating with Mueller’s team, is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday for lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition period. Mueller’s team previously said that a sentence between zero and six months would be appropriate because of Flynn’s “particularly valuable” cooperation in the Trump-Russia probe. Flynn’s team argued for no prison time, but also suggested that FBI agents had tricked Flynn into lying to them. The Mueller team’s Friday filing strikes back at that suggestion, and notes that Flynn was “relaxed and jocular” during his interactions with the FBI agents. Mueller’s team said that it didn’t matter that FBI agents didn’t see any clear indications of deception at the time, nor that they didn’t think he was lying.

Source: Huffington Post December 14, 2018 20:27 UTC