President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has a court date for the first time since last year.
In a Friday afternoon filing, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Flynn and his new counsel to appear for a status conference Wednesday afternoon. The filing comes the same day as Flynn’s new lawyer and prosecutors jointly requested a sentencing delay.
NEW: Judge Sullivan has ordered everyone in the Michael Flynn case into his courtroom on Wednesday for a status conference. This will be the first time we’ve seen Flynn in court since the contentious sentencing hearing last December. pic.twitter.com/CUOOJ26syo
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) June 14, 2019
Flynn, 60, fired his previous counsel this month and retained former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell as his new attorney. In Friday’s joint request, it is noted that Flynn might testify during the trial of his former business associate, Bijan Kian, whose trial for failing to register as a foreign agent is scheduled for mid-July in the Eastern District of Virginia.
“The parties propose filing another status report within 60 days. Based on the current trial date in the [Eastern District of Virginia] case and estimated length of that trial, the government believes 60 days should provide sufficient time for the defendant to complete his cooperation, which was the basis for the defendant’s request for a continuance,” the filing reads.
Flynn’s new legal counsel also cited the voluminous amount of information associated with his case that will need to be parsed through.
“Defense counsel’s concerns about the amount of information to review in preparation for sentencing will be addressed again in 60 days, when the defendant’s cooperation is likely to be complete,” the filing reads.
Flynn, who was investigated as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation, pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with then-Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. The former Army general has been cooperating with prosecutors from the investigation.
He has not appeared in a courtroom since December.
