The Epoch Times Former lawyers of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn say they’ve found thousands of additional documents related to his case that hadn’t been handed over to his new lawyers. In response, the judge presiding over the case has ordered the former lawyers to redo the search for everything they have related to the case.
Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2017, to one count of lying to FBI agents.
In 2019, he fired his previous lawyers from Covington & Burling and hired a team led by former Texas prosecutor Sidney Powell. In recent months, he’s accused his former lawyers of ineffective counsel and asked District Judge Emmet Sullivan to allow him to withdraw his plea.
Covington lawyers informed the court on April 8 that they found additional documents and were transferring them to the defense.
The documents included “emails that were not transferred to successor counsel last year due to errors in the process of collecting and searching electronic materials, as well as two pages of handwritten notes that inadvertently were not transferred,” they said in an April 28 filing (pdf).
