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GOOD - Judge in Michael Flynn and asylum cases has a tough reputation
"Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto
New: Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan is asking why Michael Flynn should not be held in contempt of court for perjury, and has appointed a retired judge to look into it and argue against the DOJ's request to dismiss the Flynn case.
@kpolantz
reporting"
Judge Emmet Sullivan, who berated Michael Flynn and tossed a Trump policy cracking down on asylum-seekers, has a reputation for being tough on prosecutors
Dec. 21, 2018, 5:32 AM AEDT
By Dareh Gregorian
He's ripped Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI and issued an order halting the Justice Department harsh policies on asylum-seekers — and that was just this week.
[...]
Sullivan "is a fiercely independent judge," Glenn Kirschner, a former longtime federal prosecutor in Washington, told NBC News.
District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan United States District Court
"He's very polite, civil and cordial, and extremely demanding and exacting, particularly of the prosecution," he said. "He's somebody that loathes any hint of governmental misconduct. If we're doing something not to his liking, he'll let us know about it."
On her Fox News show Saturday night, TV personality Jeanine Pirro praised Sullivan as "a jurist unafraid of the swamp, a judge who has a track record of calling out prosecutorial misconduct, a man who does not tolerate injustice, or abuse of power."
She predicted he would throw out Flynn's guilty plea if he found the FBI had duped him into lying — but that's not what Sullivan found. After he got Flynn to acknowledge that he'd lied to investigators knowing full well it was a crime, he told Flynn, "This is a very serious offense" that could result in him seeing jail time.
"A high-ranking senior official of the government making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation while in the White House," Sullivan said during the Tuesday hearing.
"Can't minimize that," he added. "I'm not hiding my disgust, my disdain."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-michael-flynn-asylum-cases-has-tough-reputation-n950156
To link
The new Michael Flynn documents aren’t the bombshell Trump is making them out to be
"An Ugly Day for the Justice Department"
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=155616811
See also:
A federal judge is signaling that he may pursue perjury or contempt charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn over his effort to abandon an earlier guilty plea to a charge of lying to the FBI.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=155617709
"Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto
New: Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan is asking why Michael Flynn should not be held in contempt of court for perjury, and has appointed a retired judge to look into it and argue against the DOJ's request to dismiss the Flynn case.
@kpolantz
reporting"
Judge Emmet Sullivan, who berated Michael Flynn and tossed a Trump policy cracking down on asylum-seekers, has a reputation for being tough on prosecutors
Dec. 21, 2018, 5:32 AM AEDT
By Dareh Gregorian
He's ripped Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI and issued an order halting the Justice Department harsh policies on asylum-seekers — and that was just this week.
[...]
Sullivan "is a fiercely independent judge," Glenn Kirschner, a former longtime federal prosecutor in Washington, told NBC News.
District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan United States District Court
"He's very polite, civil and cordial, and extremely demanding and exacting, particularly of the prosecution," he said. "He's somebody that loathes any hint of governmental misconduct. If we're doing something not to his liking, he'll let us know about it."
On her Fox News show Saturday night, TV personality Jeanine Pirro praised Sullivan as "a jurist unafraid of the swamp, a judge who has a track record of calling out prosecutorial misconduct, a man who does not tolerate injustice, or abuse of power."
She predicted he would throw out Flynn's guilty plea if he found the FBI had duped him into lying — but that's not what Sullivan found. After he got Flynn to acknowledge that he'd lied to investigators knowing full well it was a crime, he told Flynn, "This is a very serious offense" that could result in him seeing jail time.
"A high-ranking senior official of the government making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation while in the White House," Sullivan said during the Tuesday hearing.
"Can't minimize that," he added. "I'm not hiding my disgust, my disdain."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-michael-flynn-asylum-cases-has-tough-reputation-n950156
To link
The new Michael Flynn documents aren’t the bombshell Trump is making them out to be
"An Ugly Day for the Justice Department"
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=155616811
See also:
A federal judge is signaling that he may pursue perjury or contempt charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn over his effort to abandon an earlier guilty plea to a charge of lying to the FBI.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=155617709
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