Michael Flynn has fired his lawyers and replaced them with new representation, a seemingly significant development as President Trump‘s first national security adviser awaits sentencing for lying to FBI agents about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
A court filing Thursday revealed that Flynn had notified his attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony that he is “terminating Covington & Burling LLP as his counsel and has already retained new counsel for this matter.”
It was not immediately clear why Flynn has replaced his lawyers, or with whom. Anthony and Kelner declined to comment in an email when asked by The Hill for more information about the developments.
View the complete June 6 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.