Court-appointed former Judge Gleeson accuses Flynn of perjury, DoJ of "gross abuse of prosecutorial power", urges court to NOT drop charges

A former judge appointed to argue against the Department of Justice's (DOJ) extraordinary decision to drop charges against Michael Flynn urged a federal judge not to let the Trump administration withdraw its case and accused the former national security adviser of perjury.

In a 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.

"The reasons offered by the Government are so irregular, and so obviously pretextual, that they are deficient," he wrote. "Moreover, the facts surrounding the filing of the Government’s motion constitute clear evidence of gross prosecutorial abuse. They reveal an unconvincing effort to disguise as legitimate a decision to dismiss that is based solely on the fact that Flynn is a political ally of President Trump."

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