we saw during trump s term as president and something that is continuing now. yeah not surprising for trump himself surprising generally, though, of course. typically you would not see someone attacking the judge that they re going to be appearing before. i ve been speaking to a lot of people in trump s trump s orbit. they are not exactly thrilled with the fact that he s been going after the judge or saying like you did last night that alvin braxton indict himself here. of course. you know all this is coming as his legal team is dealing with all of that. he does have a new attorney on his team one that he added just yesterday. i was told todd blanche, he s a prominent white collar defense attorney. he joined after a member of trump s own legal team has raised questions about one of the attorneys. that is in this case. joe jacket, pena. this is what trump attorney tim parla tory who is not representing trump in the manhattan case, but is in the january 6th and the documents investigatio
joining us now is paul charlton, former u.s. attorney. good to see you. i want to kind of been thinking about this, we re still awaiting the decision, the final decision from the d.a. on whether charges will be made. could this foreperson have any impact on what happens next? it is extraordinarily unusual, in my experience, jose, both as a prosecutor in the federal and state systems and now as a white collar defense attorney to see a grand jury foreperson, even one in this role, the investigative grand jury, talk about her recommendations and the recommendations of this grand jury. the concern is, and it was expressed very clearly by d.a. fani willis, when she asked that the report not be revealed, the concern is by talking in this way you risk unfairly prejudicing those individuals who may eventually be charged and more specifically there is going to be a jury pool, both
Gil M. Soffer is managing partner of Katten's Chicago office and national co-head of the White Collar Defense, Internal Investigations and Compliance practice.
team putting up one whale of a fight. what s happened there? flynn shifted lawyers a couple of months ago. he had sort of a white collar defense attorney in washington, very well-respected, well-known, who negotiated this pretty good plea deal for him to plead guilty to a single false statement felony charge in the mueller investigation. he dropped that lawyer and shifted to a new sort of more combative attorney by the name of sidney powell, a long time critic not just of the mueller operation but of the entire sort of federal prosecutorial system, and she is now putting up a real fight, not just trying to withdraw the guilty plea but asking for lots of information that the prosecution never turned over, making all kinds of very broad requests about any criticism anyone might have ever had about the way the mueller investigation was done. she wants to make that all part of the sentencing. it s not clear whether that s entirely aimed at the judge that
team putting up one whale of a fight. what s happened there? flynn shifted lawyers a couple of months ago. he had sort of a white collar defense attorney in washington, very well-respected, well-known, who negotiated this pretty good plea deal for him to plead guilty to a single false statement felony charge in the mueller investigation. he dropped that lawyer and shifted to a new sort of more combative attorney by the name of sidney powell, a long time critic not just of the mueller operation but of the entire sort of federal prosecutorial system, and she is now putting up a real fight, not just trying to withdraw the guilty plea but asking for lots of information that the prosecution never turned over, making all kinds of very broad requests about any criticism anyone might have ever had about the way the mueller investigation was done. she wants to make that all part of the sentencing. it s not clear whether that s entirely aimed at the judge that will handle the sentencing or