that document was due by close of business today. surprise, in a last minute filing right before the close of business today, right up against the deadline, the u.s. attorney in washington, d.c. filed instead this short notice with the court ak nocknowledging thae judge had told the prosecutors and the defense that they both had to have their sentencing memos about rick gates in today. but the prosecutors say they are not ready. quote, the government the continuing to gather materials for the government s memorandum in aid of sentencing. with the court s leave, we also plan to file under seal a supplemental motion regarding mr. gate s assistance, a supplemental motion that continues sensitive information relating to ongoing criminal matters. oh, therefore the government, quote, respectfully requests a one-day extension of time to file its memorandum in aid of sentencing and moves this court to file under seal its
sorts of things he thought about him, the judge showed mercy and allowed flynn to delay that sentencing so he could go back to prosecutors and cooperate some more to try to alleviate what otherwise looked like it was going to be a really stiff sentence. that was a year ago that the judge sent him away and said you probably don t want to be sentenced by me right now. you probably want to try to help yourself a little more in term of what you can stack up against the sentence i m thinking about giving you. a year ago on that basically advice from the judge, but over the course of this past year, that s really not how it went. mike flynn didn t go to prosecutors and help them lots more so prosecutors would say he s being even more helpful. we want you to be more lenient than he might have otherwise been. didn t go that way. prosecutors to the contrary are now expressing dissatisfaction with the degree to which flynn has continued to be helpful to them. flynn has switched to a
against mike flynn and the investigation into flynn. well, now as of today, that inspector general report is out. if you were the judge in mike flynn s case, it s easy to imagine you might be annoyed at this point if you delayed the sentencing because of what you believed were good faith assertions by mike flynn s lawyers that this new report was going to change everything. it was going to make the case against mike flynn fall apart. it was going to expose the dastardly fbi for only having pursued flynn because of some flit cal vendetta against flynn or against donald trump. whatever else they thought this would give them, you might imagine that the judge today now having had the opportunity to see this report might be annoyed because the inspector general report that is out today does discuss the fbi opening up their investigation into mike flynn. and they conclude that it was no problem. i.g. took a hard look at it. seems pretty kosher is pretty much the conclusion. definitely nothin
hat, to try to keep the judge in his case from pronouncing his sentence. we know he wants a presidential pardon. it would appear he s at the end of his rope in term of what he can continue to use to delay his federal court sentencing. we re waiting to hear any time from the judge in the case. the inspector general report is out. it offers flynn no help for this somewhat crazy defense he and his fox news lawyer have been mounting in court. when it comes to rick gates, we expect to hear from prosecutors about the rick gates sentencing tomorrow. some of that will be filed under seal. it s not known if the ongoing criminal matter that rick gates is still helping with pertains maybe to mike flynn. after all, the mike flynn case is still open. flynn still hasn t been sentenced. it could pertain to anybody else from trump land, right? but the criminal cases adjacent to this president and his campaign and the various trump presidential scandals, all these criminal cases, so many of them are st
whatever it is that prosecutors are going to file. that was a little bit of a curveball tonight. and i should tell you just as we were getting on the air, just as i was heading down to the studio just a few minutes ago, we did get in the defense submission, gates defense lawyers telling the judge in his case why they think he shouldn t get prison tomb. that alone is interesting. but we re still waiting for what the prosecutors have to say which should be fascinating. we ll have more on that coming up later on. i should also mention that we originally thought that we would be seeing trump national security adviser mike flynn finally getting sentenced around now as well. it was this time last year that mike flynn was initially in court expecting to get his sentence for the felony counts on which he s pled guilty. this time last year when he showed up for his sentencing, that s when things sort of fell apart for mike flynn in open court when the judge made clear there was a real possibil