Michael Flynn Seeks To Withdraw Guilty Plea

NPR reports:

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who admitted to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., wants to withdraw his two-year-old guilty plea, saying federal prosecutors reneged on a promise not to ask for jail time at his upcoming sentencing.

Flynn, who held the post of national security adviser for less than a month, is the only Trump administration official to face criminal charges in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election meddling. He was to be sentenced on Jan. 28.

“The government’s stunning and vindictive reversal of its earlier representations to this Court are incredible, vindictive, in bad faith, and breach the plea agreement,” Sidney Powell and Jesse Binnall, Flynn’s lead counsel, wrote in the motion.