US President Donald Trump\u2019s former national security adviser Michael Flynn requested on Tuesday a sentence of a year\u2019s probation for lying to FBI agents in a case stemming from a probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n
US Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s office said last week Flynn had provided substantial cooperation with its investigation, as well as with other probes.<\/p>\n
Flynn held the White House job for only 24 days. He pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia and will be sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Dec. 18.<\/p>\n
Flynn participated in 19 meetings with the special counsel\u2019s office and other government bureaus and produced thousands of documents to the U.S. Justice Department, his lawyers said in a court filing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the Government has made clear, his cooperation was not grudging or delayed. Rather, it preceded his guilty plea or any threatened indictment and began very shortly after he was first contacted for assistance by the Special Counsel\u2019s Office,\u201d his lawyers said in the filing.<\/p>\n
Flynn is the only Trump administration official to plead guilty to a crime connected to Mueller\u2019s sprawling probe into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election.<\/p>\n
Flynn\u2019s lawyers have asked the court to \u201csentence him to a term of probation not to exceed one year, with minimal conditions of supervision, along with 200 hours of community service.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lawyers said the retired Army general was not warned before a meeting with FBI agents in January 2017 that it was a crime to lie to them.<\/p>\n
They contrasted Flynn\u2019s case with that of Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos and Alex van der Zwaan, a lawyer who worked with Trump campaign associates, who have pleaded guilty to lying to federal authorities and were both informed of the seriousness of the crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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