Special Counsel Robert Mueller has urged a federal judge to reject an attempt by Michael Flynn “to minimise the seriousness” of him lying to the FBI.
Mr Mueller’s team was responding to a sentencing memo from Flynn’s lawyers criticising the FBI interviews with their client, saying agents did not provide him “with a warning of the penalties” for misleading investigators.
This comes just two days after former lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in jail.
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On Tuesday, Flynn's legal team asked for the judge to sentence the 60-year-old Flynn to one year of minimally supervised probation and 200 hours of community service.
That request came a week after the special counsel recommended that Flynn receive a sentence “at the low end” of his guideline range of zero to six months in jail.
As part of the investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign over election meddling, Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has filed a two-part sentencing memo for Michael Flynn with a recommendation for a light sentence that has major implications for the probe.
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But prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller say Flynn had lied to the White House about his contacts with the Russian ambassador well before the January 2017 interview and merely repeated the same falsehoods when approached by the FBI.
Mr Flynn is scheduled to be sentenced next week for lying to the FBI.
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