Judge signals he’s prepared to send former national security adviser to jail despite agreement with prosecutors
Former Trump national security and campaign adviser Michael Flynn will not be sentenced for lying to the FBI until March.
A federal judge agreed to delay the sentencing of the former Trump official after signaling to Flynn and his attorneys that he was prepared to send Flynn to prison unless he learned more about his cooperation with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Flynn admitted to Judge Emmet Sullivan in a Washington courtroom on Tuesday that he knew it was a crime when he lied to the FBI in January 2017.
View the complete December 18 article by Griffin Connolly on The Roll Call website here.