In an 82-page filing submitted Wednesday, John Gleeson, the former judge acting as an outside counsel, accused the DOJ of "gross abuse of prosecutorial power" in its handling of the case against President Trump's former adviser.
"The Government’s ostensible grounds for seeking dismissal are conclusively disproven by its own briefs filed earlier in this very proceeding," Gleeson wrote.
"They contradict and ignore this Court’s prior orders, which constitute law of the case. They are riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact. And they depart from positions that the Government has taken in other cases."
"The Government has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President," he added. He also accused Flynn of committing perjury in withdrawing from an earlier guilty plea, but recommended the court not to open criminal charges...
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