[Breitbart] Special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday filed a long-awaited sentencing memo regarding his criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn and recommended he not receive any prison time after providing prosecutors with "substantial assistance.""Given the defendant’s substantial assistance and other considerations set forth below, a sentence at the low end of the guideline range‐including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration‐is appropriate and warranted," the filing reads. According to the document, Flynn participated in 19 interviews with investigators with the Office of the Special Counsel or Department of Justice, wherein the former Trump official gave "first-hand" information about communications between Trump transition team members and Russian officials, while assisting with a previously unknown "criminal investigation."
Federal sentencing guidelines recommend Flynn be sentenced up to six months in jail and face a fine up to $9,500.
"The offense level and guideline range, however, do not account for a downward departure pursuant to Section 5K1.1 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines reflecting the defendants substantial assistance to the government, which the government has moved for contemporaneously," the memo states.
In September, a federal judge on set Flynn’s sentencing for December 18, more than a year after the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia during the presidential transition.
When he pleaded guilty last year, Flynn admitted to lying during an FBI interview about the content of his conversations with Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.