Michael Flynn hoped cooperating would keep him out of prison. Here's why he may face five years.

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Source: Washington Post

Michael Flynn hoped cooperating would keep him out of prison. Here’s why he may face five years.

By Deanna Paul
December 19 at 5:45 AM

After Michael Flynn’s months of cooperation and more than a dozen meetings, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III argued this month that Flynn should receive no prison time for his substantial assistance in the Russia investigation.

A veteran judge saw things differently.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan upended the former national security adviser’s hopes of avoiding jail at the sentencing hearing Tuesday, assuring courtroom spectators that he — and only he — would be the final arbiter.

“I’m not hiding my disgust, my disdain for this criminal offense,” Sullivan said as he laid into Flynn, before opting to deviate from Mueller’s recommendation of no jail time.

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Lying to a federal agent carries a sentence of zero to six months in jail, but, Tolman said, if Sullivan believes Flynn’s actions were egregious, the statute permits him to send Flynn to prison for up to five years, the statutory maximum.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/19/michael-flynn-hoped-cooperating-would-keep-him-out-prison-heres-why-he-may-face-five-years/

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1. I can never get the Wash Post articles to post when I click on them. So I don't unfortunately ...

view posts w/ their links on them but instead, view on google (there's usually a similar story out there). Always pushing for 'thanks for looking at our website, pls. sign up/subscribe'.

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3. You should be able to right-click on the link

... and select the option to view in incognito mode. Most Windows-based browsers allow this, especially Chrome which a lot of us have. When you select the incognito mode you get to see the entire article, not the paywall version. The Washington Post is especially aggressive in that regard, and so are many other pubs.

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5. Thanks, I'll try! Take care. NT

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6. If you have Amazon Prime, you can get six months of the WaPo for free

After that it's $3.99 a month, which I continue to pay because I think the WaPo is worth it. And unlike the NYT, you don't have to call in to cancel (and have to listen to someone trying to get you to stay) -- you can do it online.

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2. What Flynn did was pretty f'd up.

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So I’m not sympathic to him at all. Cohen was a garden variety Trump flunky. Flynn was a Putin loving traitor.

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4. I'm pretty sure Pootie has kompromat on Flynn

It doesn't mean I'm sympathetic to him, but it would explain a lot. The guy was a life-long Democrat and suddenly turned pro-Putin while he was head of the NSA for PBO? The Russians have something on him and it's not politics.