Justice Department settles with Michael Flynn for $1.2 million in lawsuit
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Via: vic-eldred • 8 months ago • 19 commentsBy: Emma BusseyJake Gibson (Fox News)
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement Wednesday with Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor to President Donald Trump, over a legal battle tied to his contacts with a Russian diplomat during the Mueller probe.
Official court papers seen by Fox News Digital do not disclose the financial terms of the settlement, but the government is said to be paying Flynn approximately $1.2 million to resolve the matter, The Associated Press reported.
The agreement concludes a lengthy legal saga stemming from the Russia investigation.
Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2017, to giving false statements to the FBI about his communications with Russia's ambassador to the United States.
The Justice Department reached a settlement Wednesday with Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor to President Donald Trump. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo, File)
Those discussions included Russia's response to U.S. sanctions and a United Nations Security Council resolution regarding Israel.
The charge stemmed from Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference and possible links between Trump campaign officials and Russian figures.
Mueller, a former FBI director who led the bureau from 2001 to 2013, later served as special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, a probe that shadowed much of Trump's presidency.
He brought charges against multiple Trump associates, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Flynn.
His final report detailed extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, but did not establish a criminal conspiracy. Flynn later sought to withdraw his guilty plea and accused federal prosecutors of acting in bad faith.
By 2019, he claimed innocence, citing alleged FBI misconduct.
Although Flynn was pardoned by Trump in late 2020, he filed a lawsuit in 2023 seeking at least $50 million in damages, alleging wrongful and malicious prosecution.
He argued the case, brought by what he described as a "virulently anti-Trump leadership" within the FBI, cost him tens of millions of dollars in business opportunities and future earning potential.
Under the previous administration, the DOJ moved to dismiss Flynn's complaint. Now, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, a critic of the Russia probe, the department changed course.
In a statement, the DOJ called the settlement an "important step in redressing" what it described as a "historic injustice," The Associated Press reported.
A spokesperson said the department will pursue accountability to ensure such "weaponization of the federal government" does not recur.
According to a notice of settlement filed in the Middle District of Florida, the case will be dismissed with prejudice once Flynn confirms receipt of the funds, preventing the claims from being refiled.
The filing states each party will bear its own legal costs and that the court will not retain jurisdiction over the agreement.
In a statement Wednesday, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said: "The Department of Justice's reported decision to pay out more than $1 million of taxpayers' dollars to Michael Flynn is as outrageous as it is indefensible."
Warner also described the settlement as one that "sends exactly the wrong message to our adversaries, to our intelligence professionals, and to the American people.
"It undermines the rule of law, demeans the work of the men and women who safeguard our national security, and suggests that accountability depends on who you are and who you know, not what you've done."
The DOJ did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.
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A bit of justice.
Yet nobody was prosecuted.
The right person was prosecuted to begin with. Any other reading is purely bs
That must be why Peter Strzok had to replace the original 302 form of the Flynn interview with his own.
1.2 mil is a joke but they could never pay enough for what they did to this guy.
Special, extra hot place in hell for the d-bags responsible.
Flynn is a total Christian nationalist wacko - shouldn't have been given a dime
Flynn has done more good for this country than most triggered libs could even lie about and what he got was a pittance compared to the bullshit the left wing crackpot machine put him and his family through.
None of those triggered fruitloops are worth even the sweat off his left nut.
Flynn is a QAnon lunatic. I'm surprised you don't know that
Flynn is a honorably discharged Lt General with 33 years service to his country.[✘]
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You see Flynn's hand up in that photo? He is taking the QAnon pledge. Fuck him.
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A man who willingly accepts over $200,000 a year in military pension, swearing an oath that is contrary to evey oath he swore to the Constitution with every promotin over 33 years.
Vice? Really? You'd be better off using Mad magazine or CNN.
Paying this criminal anything is criminal. This is like a burglar suing the homeowner because he tripped on stairs that weren't to code while breaking into the house.
Trump may think he needs Flynn to stir up trouble after the GOP loses the mid terms.
I hope Trump gives Flynn a nice position in his administration...maybe even his third one.
If this country thinks most liberals are triggered now......
I look forward to going full retro on maga xtian nationalists in the coming civil war ...
Personally, I feel the piece of shit that currently occupies the presidency and all of his bastardized minions deserve to rot in hell for eternity. So, the decisions that come out of the DOJ are questionable and suspect to tampering by overeager trump suck-ups and sycophantic jack-offs, if not Trump himself. Therefore, I put about as much credibility to this story as ... well none that I can think of. This is just DJT cleaning up after DJT. Nothing more.
It is really a pity that someone real could not have been the 47th president instead of this extremely low-grade intelligence person who seems bent on giving every single lever that we have ever had as a nation away to get a handful of nothing in return.