Mueller could be a step closer to finishing his probe. Mueller recommended minimal sentences against Michael Flynn, due to the latter’s cooperation. Breitbart reports:
Special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday filed a long-awaited sentencing memo regarding his criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn and recommended he not receive any prison time after providing prosecutors with “substantial assistance.”
“Given the defendant’s substantial assistance and other considerations set forth below, a sentence at the low end of the guideline range—including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration—is appropriate and warranted,” the filing reads. According to the document, Flynn participated in 19 interviews with investigators with the Office of the Special Counsel or Department of Justice, wherein the former Trump official gave “first-hand” information about communications between Trump transition team members and Russian officials, while assisting with a previously unknown “criminal investigation.”
Federal sentencing guidelines recommend Flynn be sentenced up to six months in jail and face a fine up to $9,500.
“The offense level and guideline range, however, do not account for a downward departure pursuant to Section 5K1.1 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines reflecting the defendants substantial assistance to the government, which the government has moved for contemporaneously,” the memo states.
It remains to be seen whether Flynn lied to Mueller to receive a minimal sentence, or whether he genuinely discovered unauthorized and illegal contacts with Russians.
The absolutely appalling aspect of this fiasco is that no matter who gets drawn into the maelstrom of dishonesty, and treason it is like the disease Ebola, the barest touch can kill. The well thought out discussion of how General Mathis’ family and good name has been viciously burned at the stake is enough to deep six one’s confidence in the ‘system’, fellow men and one’s leaders. Robert Mueller is an easy one to despise as he looks exactly like the kind manipulating, dishonest and murderous SOB that virtually everyone must recognize. God help America in this towering time of need.
We keep being told that the end is near. But it keeps on going and going and going. When will it end? Will it ever stop?
Mueller, more saint or sinner? SINNER seems to be the consensus. A man who may have started his career with good intentions, but then we all know what the road to hell is paved with! Now he’s recommending “no time” for Flynn? Seriously?! Why? Because Mueller made up a process crime where there was no real crime? How “special” after having torched Flynn’s reputation, his stellar career of sacrifice to his country due to their deliberately falsified findings. The ones that are even opposite of what the FBI themselves had concluded and testified to under oath at congressional committees. With the actual notes from the interviews, even Comey himself, confirming they did not think Flynn was lying or being deceptive?!? That is even though the FBI was deceptive when it sought to question Flynn, under false pretenses, without warning showing up at his work, without counsel, which was completely underhanded. They wiped out his LIFE SAVINGS, forced him to sell the family home to pay for his legal bills, leaving him and his family without financial security, wiping out any inheritance his children would have received, so that his family would suffer as much as possible. This will force Flynn to live the rest of his life without anything to show for his LIFETIME of service, except the ABUSE, FINANCIAL RUIN and HARASSMENT of Mr. MUELLER, who’s motivated by his hate of Donald Trump. Yup, he’s such an amazing guy, that Mr. Mueller. How compassionate, NOT! You stole his life you lying bag of self-righteous humanity, who’s pomposity could not be more obvious. While he sits back in the lap of luxury, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he graduated from the same privileged boys school as his classmate, X-Sec of State John Kerry, who is “actively undermining” U.S. policy and doing everything he can to assure the failure of Trump’s presidency. But his efforts are failing, as part of the anti-American elite. They are cut from the same moral superiority cloth, believing that they can’t be subject to the law, because they are the law.
That is unless you were blatantly found guilty of wrongdoing and refused to acknowledge it, while you continue to present yourself the ultimate arbitrator of law and order, using unscrupulous methods to guarantee a conviction at all costs. To hell with the collateral damage to people’s lives.
Then add Weissmann, who has been the legal pitbull of Mr. Mueller, for whom he previously worked as general counsel at the F.B.I. They have long honed their skills of witness intimidation, harassment and threats of lifetime sentences for process crimes, until witness will testalie, especially if they threaten to go after his family or his son, in this case. It’s a very convenient way to build a case when you have no crime. If you can make up enough process crimes to make it look like there is something nepherious going on, then maybe you can justify spending $20 million taxpayer dollars, causing multiple millions in wasted time and hearings on Capitol Hill, dividing this nation based on a FALSE dossier paid for by a person with much CLEARER EVIDENCE OF CRIMES, while bankrupting multiple witnesses and raping their families financially, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially and stealing their future opportunities.
Then there’s Weissmann, the man who has been found guilty of withholding exculpatory evidence in previous cases and should have been disbarred if it were not for his “friends” like the FBI director, Mueller. This is the same Mr. Mueller who left four men rotting in jail while he let a murdering criminal maffia member get witness protection. All the while KNOWING the FBI had information confirming the four men in prison were innocent, but still arguing against their release for years at EVERY parole hearing, ALLOWING 2 men to DIE after a lifetime behind bars. How do I know it’s true? The government ended up paying the estates and the two remaining men, who were released, 100 MILLION DOLLARS in compensation. It didn’t really matter how much they paid out to the two men who were dead.
When President George H.W. Bush appointed him, assistant U.S. attorney general, responsible for the criminal division, he was convinced this was a man of character. Perhaps he was at first, but absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Those who worked with him bore witness of his tendency to command, rather than inspire, as it came into sharp relief. A few comments include:
“He doesn’t invite disagreement,” said a former prosecutor who served under Mueller. “He’s an order-giver.”
He could be harsh on subordinates — sparking resentment when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as “moving the furniture.”
Later Mueller famously refused to fully examine all the available facts in the Anthrax case before testifying that the wrong man was guilty. Instead he gave into the pressure to find a culprit, so he chose to cherry pick facts and blindly zeroed in on a completely innocent man, Steven J. Hatfill. He was a virologist at the Army’s laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Md, and in January 2003, Mueller assured congressional leaders in a closed-door briefing that bloodhounds had traced anthrax from the attacks to Hatfill.
But Hatfill had no experience handling anthrax. Nor did he have access to anthrax stored at Ft. Detrick or elsewhere. Years later, the FBI would reject the bloodhound evidence as unreliable.
After media leaks fingered Hatfill, he sued the FBI and the Justice Department on privacy grounds. In June 2008, the government agreed to pay Hatfill about $5.8 million.
That my friends, is the man who is guilty of being involved in Uranium 1 up to his armpits. It is a wonder that Mueller is not being investigated for HIS ties to Russia. Or maybe his is… Hmmm…
People can go to jail for lying to the FBI. When are those member of the FBI who lye to Congress and the American people going to jail?
Forget it Mueller, Trump will pardon Manafort, Flynn and everyone else you tried to ruin!
On a investigation that should have come to a screeching stop once it became known how it all got started and who paid for it.
Investigation?………more like a witch hunt if you ask me.
Refresh my memory. Was it Mueller or some other FBI Darling who, in covering for Whitey Bolger over a number of years, framed and imprisoned 4 guys, who were eventually freed, and paid off by the taxpayers, that’s you, me and that guy leaning on the tree. How come so little if anything is ever heard about this, and who knows how many similar judicial/law enforcement fiascos are attributable to the daring do of the FBI.
So now that mueller and his Inquisitor’s have nearly bankrupted General Flynn they have reverted to the . . . . . “Never Mind” status.
Any one that Mueller interviews can be trapped if he stays with them long enough. It is like a police course I took and the officer said if he wanted to arrest you for something he only had to keep following you and in time he could find an offense to pull you over. Mueller continues to do this and trap people and then they either have to pay a deep penalty and time in jail with breaking up families or go along with his game. So said. Why can’t we have our “yes” be yes and our “no” be no and move on? Do we as the investigator have to win and all expense?
Just take the Fifth and say Nothing more to Mueller…
Mule Ear and his Washington cronies are the real criminals, not General Flynn.
With upwards of 5000 federal laws, everybody but Jesus has broken some—knowingly or not. Give me a dozen high powered lawyers their staff and investigator and nearly two years and I’ll find dirt on anybody.
@ JUG, agree the General got himself trapped by Mueller but not clear on who you want payback on? For me I want Mueller and gang investigated as soon as Trump cleans house at Justice and FBI. And oh yea the swamp creeps at those two departments. Only jail time suites me for them.
I’m beyond sick and tired of this bastard mueller running around for two years, spending millions, acting like he’s above it all. When it’s that friggin Clinton pos that’s guilty as Hell.
Thank you Dave. So many Americans agree with you. Mueller is a joke to most of us but he continues to hurt fine people like Flynn. The condition of Washington is a real mind boggler. Our founding fathers are spinning in their
graves.
Poor sucker got roped in by the real criminal!
Now, it SHOULD BE PAYBACK TIME!