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Surprise discovery in Flynn case: former lawyers find evidence they failed to produce

Whoops! What are these? Rose Law Firm Billing Records?
[Just The News] The surprises keep coming in former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's legal battle to overturn his conviction in the Russia probe.

Just days after the FBI belatedly produced possible evidence of innocence to Flynn's new legal team led by Attorney Sidney Powell, his old law firm on Tuesday informed the judge it had located 6,800 documents that it failed to turn over as required by a court order in 2019.

Covington & Burling LLP told the court its search team failed to search all of the law firm's records and missed the documents, mostly emails. The documents were produced to Powell on Tuesday.

"Covington determined that an unintentional miscommunication involving the firm's information technology personnel had led them, in some instances, to run search terms on subsets of emails ... rather than on the broader sets of emails that should have been searched," Flynn's former attorney Robert Kelner told the court in a motion.

"We now have performed another search, using search terms and manual reviews, on a broader universe of material to correct the earlier error and to transfer additional documents that are part of the client file," Kelner wrote, saying his firm was willing to assist Powell on any other matters and to address any questions the judge may have about the oversight.
Sounds like his economic loss just got covered - in the millions

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 Nb Covington is Eric Holder's firm.

Malpractice suit, comin' right up. Go get em, Sidney.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-29 01:00|| 2020-04-29 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Shanghaiing someone in D.C. generally has few if any consequences. Appears no one ever figured on a Sidney Powell turning up. I hope she drives it squarely up their fat FBI and intelligence community arses.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-29 02:28|| 2020-04-29 02:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope she doesn't take lonely walks in the evenings.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-29 02:39|| 2020-04-29 02:39|| Front Page Top

#4 That whole firm should swing

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-29 08:52|| 2020-04-29 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's an idea, promote Gina Haspel to DNI and appoint an acquitted General Mike Flynn as her replacement at the Agency.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-29 08:57|| 2020-04-29 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 You really hate these people, don't you Besoeker?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-29 09:07|| 2020-04-29 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ The 'Deep State' is not simply a fraternity of loosely associated, like minded globalists and pipe smoking academicians who share a flare for political intrigue.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-29 09:17|| 2020-04-29 09:17|| Front Page Top

#8 The damage they have done to not just our foreign policy but our democracy is incalculable.

They tried to overturn a presidential election. They are beyond the law-- they've captured the legal and law enforcement establishment itself. They're making the US into a banana republic.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-29 09:33|| 2020-04-29 09:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Covington & Burling LLP attorneys sold out their client.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-29 09:49|| 2020-04-29 09:49|| Front Page Top

#10 What JohnQC said - we're supposed to believe a top-flight law firm simply forgot about this stuff?

Posted by Raj 2020-04-29 10:20|| 2020-04-29 10:20|| Front Page Top

#11 "Well, you have to understand. He wasn't a high profile client....shit"

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-29 10:48|| 2020-04-29 10:48|| Front Page Top

#12 we're supposed to believe a top-flight law firm simply forgot about this stuff?

Maybe they had the Awan Bros doing their IT.
Snark O'The Day

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-29 10:54|| 2020-04-29 10:54|| Front Page Top

#13 #9 Covington & Burling LLP attorneys sold out their client.

Yep: down the river.

This was deliberate. A white-shoe Manhattan firm as stories as Covington doesn't make mistakes of this magnitude.

This smacks of Hillary's emails. Holder was probably involved...

Posted by Lex 2020-04-29 11:00|| 2020-04-29 11:00|| Front Page Top

#14 I hope LTG Flynn is exonerated and the case dismissed with prejudice. Once that happens I suspect he will recover the financial damages to his life in the civil suits that follow. What I also suspect is a searing, white hot anger to destroy the bastards who did this to him to keep him out of the NSC and Trumps ear. From his time at DIA he knew far too much about the Obama ValJar cabal and their crimes. I pray he guts the lot of them.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-04-29 11:27|| 2020-04-29 11:27|| Front Page Top

#15 The only remaining question is whether this was:
a) a wide-ranging conspiracy with multiple aware principals, or
b) a series of corrupt decisions by individuals, not working in concert but all following the local DC mores of corruption and self-aggrandizement.

If you voted for b) you need remedial current events 101.

Posted by Mercutio 2020-04-29 11:27|| 2020-04-29 11:27|| Front Page Top

#16 ^^ This

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-29 11:44|| 2020-04-29 11:44|| Front Page Top

#17 The timing of this disclosure suggests that some of these emails were to or from the prosecutors which presumably were revealed to exist by the disclosures to Powell from the other side.
If so, they were probably withheld to cooperate with the government agents involved, and were done so against the best interests of their client. This could be seriously bad for them.

Posted by daniel 2020-04-29 13:36|| 2020-04-29 13:36|| Front Page Top

#18 /\ SERIOUSLY bad. Muahahahaha!

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-29 15:19|| 2020-04-29 15:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Let's see if anything comes from this. I'm betting nothing will happen based on events so far!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-04-29 17:45|| 2020-04-29 17:45|| Front Page Top

#20 Hey Seeking, I can hope! :)

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-29 19:13|| 2020-04-29 19:13|| Front Page Top

#21 The REAL virus isn't COVID-19. It is/was in the FBI/N'Obama administration.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-29 21:22|| 2020-04-29 21:22|| Front Page Top

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