Posts by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
(DIR) Post #9r1CqThKgGU9n0BlZ2 by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T06:44:12Z
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Professor Cleveland gets pretty deep into the weeds, but her article is a fascinating look into the inner workings of the government’s lawyers dealings with General Flynn. Pretty shameful behavior on the part of the government’s lawyers.
(DIR) Post #9r1CqTvroE6yW4zNDc by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T06:50:32Z
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I’m very disappointed with the judge for not correcting the bad behavior of the out-of-control government lawyers without having to put General Flynn through this new round of legal procedures. Listening to Sydney Powell tonight, the Motion to Withdraw the plea is only one of several steps he will have to go through. It sounds like it will not be easy - or brief. Thank God for Sydney, though.
(DIR) Post #9r1CqUBoqus7JYS75E by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T07:11:54Z
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“Michael T. Flynn (“Mr. Flynn”) hereby moves to withdraw his plea because of the government's bad faith, vindictiveness, and breach of the plea agreement.”I’m so sorry the General has to go through this, but this is a story that must be told - and there is no one better than Sydney Powell to tell it well.
(DIR) Post #9r1FRG06lkJbvndVjc by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T07:56:18Z
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OK, this burns me up. From Powell’s motion (section B-4):“Unexpectedly, on December 20, 2019, the government requested from Mr. Flynn a letter outlining “the facts and circumstances that the defendant believes should be taken into consideration by the Departure Committee when determining whether the defendant merits a downward departure motion ... The government gave a deadline of noon, December 24, 2019 (Christmas Eve).”
(DIR) Post #9r1FRGHphqUeolvfMW by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T07:57:17Z
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“Mr. Flynn replied and requested an extension to December 27, 2019. The government denied the request to the 27th, but it granted the defense an extension to 5 p.m. on December 26, 2019. This required the defense team to work through Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, only to receive “out-of-office for the week” replies from government lawyers to whom we sent the letter.“
(DIR) Post #9r1f2jg1tW4ZXTDF7A by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T08:01:03Z
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“Mr. Flynn provided his letter to the government by its requested deadline of 5 p.m. on December 26, 2019. The government notified Mr. Flynn that it was likely unable to meet its deadline to this Court of December 30, 2019, due to “the holidays” and requested an extension to January 7, 2020.”Unprofessional, slime-ball move on the part of the government attorneys. Clear harassment of Powell and her associates - just because they can.
(DIR) Post #9r1f2jtr478EELgHfE by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T08:16:25Z
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Thanks for working through Christmas - and we’re so sorry we couldn’t give you a one day extension so you could spend Christmas with your families - but we are going to give ourselves an extra week because “holidays”.
(DIR) Post #9r1f2k8OC4l2xQTtJo by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T08:30:05Z
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From the Sean Hannity show last night:Sean: “I almost got the impression the judge, in this case, was basically saying to you ‘Sidney, withdraw the plea! Does he have to approve this? Did you get the same impression from the judge?”
(DIR) Post #9r1f2kOhDRnlm06ujg by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T08:31:18Z
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Sidney Powell: “It could go either way, he certainly has discretion as to whether to allow the withdrawal of the plea, but we’re more than convinced we need all the tests, no matter which way you look at it. This is just the first part of the motion on that. This portion of the motion is based on the breach of the plea agreement. There are a lot of other reasons that we’ll brief as soon as we possibly can.Transcript from (and h/t to) @LoRosS26 on Twitter
(DIR) Post #9r1wxrh2Se727zVn16 by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T15:30:30Z
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A further article by Professor Cleveland regarding the government’s last minute “about face” and possible reasons why Judge Sullivan may not be helping here:https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/15/new-evidence-in-michael-flynn-case-shows-government-prosecutors-pushed-him-to-lie/
(DIR) Post #9r1wyEwQ1d56ELstgO by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T15:35:19Z
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From the article:“Judge Sullivan then quoted several passages in which Powell made clear that while Flynn “accepted responsibility for the inaccuracies in the FARA filings,” he never reclaimed he “willfully allowed the filing to proceed—knowing and intending it to deceive or mislead.””
(DIR) Post #9r1wzTAYbxY4eD5GGu by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T15:39:35Z
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“The tenor of Judge Sullivan’s text screeched disbelief. The long-time federal judge might as well have said that Flynn’s fancy new attorney was playing word games reminiscent of “it depends what the meaning of is, is.”“As Cleveland notes, Powell”s motion includes substantial evidence that General Flynn NEVER intended the FARA filing to be deceptive, but Sullivan may have already come down on the government’s side on this issue.
(DIR) Post #9r1x0EGXVXGCiNFCca by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T15:46:24Z
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This may explain both why the judge, after substantial recent disclosures of government wrongdoings, did not go along with Powell’s previous Brady motion to require additional disclosures to the defendant and, more importantly, why Powell is girding for a much longer and important battle here.
(DIR) Post #9r1x1YTppucPhM5yjI by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T15:55:57Z
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The behavior of the government lawyers aside, I had hoped for more when Sullivan was assigned to the case. In the Ted Stevens case he seemed to get how uneven the playing field is when any defendant is coming up against the federal government, yet in the face of egregious conduct here, he seems to be willing to “look the other way”.
(DIR) Post #9r1x2u397vBIsuFqnA by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T16:06:52Z
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For those saying the Flynn has a great appeal - number 1, appeals take time - time away from family. And number 2, President Trump is not nearly done bringing in enough federal judges to counter-balance the highly partisan Obama judges. He’s made a lot of progress, but I wouldn’t want to bet my client’s future on the current state of the 10th Circuit. She has to present judge Sullivan with a myriad of reasons so he will have no reasonable alternative to ruling in Flynn’s favor.
(DIR) Post #9r1ybDzPb6eUWiRC5o by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T16:26:10Z
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Here’s the government’s weaselly argument that it is not really changing anything here in taking away its recommendation for no jail time for General Flynn:https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cleveland1.15a.jpg
(DIR) Post #9r2vIM2BMFtBGp0I9Q by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-15T16:37:51Z
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It boils down to - we changed our mind on recommending probation, but there’s no prejudice to General Flynn because the 0 to 6 months sentencing recommendations remain the same.
(DIR) Post #9r2vIMJuIM4E9nIRmK by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-16T03:04:33Z
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A couple of hours ago Sidney Powell posted a prof Cleveland tweet that cautioned that it is not a done deal that judge Sullivan will allow Gen Flynn to withdraw his plea and responded thusly:“True, but @GenFlynn is clear he will not repeat prior mistake and Judge Sullivan said he would not sentence a man who said he was innocent. What we have briefed so far is only tip.“I can’t wait to see Sydney’s next brief. I don’t believe I have ever seen Sydney Powell over-promise and under-perform.
(DIR) Post #A4gD0iyzV06bcBfxXk by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2021-02-26T22:35:38Z
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@ThomasWic That’s exactly the kind of immigrant we need - a hero that supported our troops at great personal danger to himself. Really great news!
(DIR) Post #ALl07gN7GACoL3oSbQ by Banzai@social.quodverum.com
2022-07-22T17:49:41Z
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@Debradelai Thank you for the warning. 1. When you have commented on one of my posts in the past, you have objected to me tagging you when I respond.2. Your full name takes up a lot of characters. My apologies for using a shortened (familiar) form. I did not mean any insult.3. I find your posts to be often interesting (if sharply worded) and I would often like to respond, but given your “fair warnings”, I will not respond in the future.I appreciate what you have done here.