Michael Flynn has fired his lawyers and replaced them with new representation, a seemingly significant development as President Trump’s first national security adviser awaits sentencing for lying to FBI agents about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
A court filing Thursday revealed that Flynn had notified his attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony that he is “terminating Covington & Burling LLP as his counsel and has already retained new counsel for this matter.”
It was not immediately clear why Flynn has replaced his lawyers, or with whom. Anthony and Kelner declined to comment in an email when asked by The Hill for more information about the developments.
Kelner and Anthony wrote in the filing Thursday that Judge Emmet Sullivan has the power to deny their motion to withdraw as counsel but argued their removal “would not be prejudicial to any of the parties or otherwise inconsistent with the interests of justice.”
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Flynn abruptly fires his lawyers ahead of sentencing https://t.co/PYNcVtxGRU pic.twitter.com/EshiUxMUS9
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NEW: Judge Sullivan says not so fast to Michael Flynn firing his lawyers, though it looks like maybe just on a technicality. pic.twitter.com/nu4ogFehYK
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