Court To Investigate Whether Michael Flynn’s First Lawyers Did A Bad Job
Flynn's case, already of significant interest to conservatives, will now likely have the full attention of the D.C. legal profession and ethics experts nationwide.
By Leslie McAdoo Gordon
February 11, 2020
Prosecutors in the federal case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn over the weekend asked the court to authorize Flynn’s former attorneys to provide information and documents about their representation of Flynn to the government. Flynn has moved to withdraw his guilty plea in federal court on the grounds that his original counsel, the prominent D.C. law firm Covington and Burling, had a conflict of interest and did not provide him with effective assistance of counsel. The prosecutors also asked for more time to respond to Flynn’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea in order to consult with the Covington attorneys.
In this case, Flynn initially retained Covington and Burling to help him make disclosures under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for work through his consulting firm prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Later, the government launched a criminal investigation into whether those FARA filings were false and whether Flynn had made false statements about an unrelated telephone call with the Russian ambassador while Trump was the president-elect. Covington represented Flynn in this criminal investigation and his subsequent guilty plea, which almost certainly constituted a conflict of interest, as I’ve previously explained.
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