WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Judge dismisses Michael Flynn case following Trump pardon
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter | | December 08, 2020 02:12 PM
The federal judge agreed to dismiss as moot the case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn on Tuesday, roughly two weeks after President Trump pardoned the former national security adviser.
Judge Emmet Sullivan, who has handled the case against Flynn since December 2017, issued a 43-page opinion along with his order to dismiss the case, seemingly putting an end to a legal drama that began during the 2016 election amid the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation and continued into special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and beyond. The judge had been resisting quickly granting the Justice Department’s initial motion to dismiss the case since May.
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