Ex-judge reviewing Flynn cases urges guilty plea be upheld

A retired judge named to review Michael Flynn's case recommended Friday the former national security adviser's guilty plea for lying to the FBI be upheld, suggesting the Justice Department's request to dismiss the charge was caused by pressure from President Trump. “In the United States, Presidents do not orchestrate pressure campaigns to get the Justice Department to drop charges against defendants who have pleaded guilty — twice, before two different judges — and whose guilt is obvious,” the former jurist John Gleeson wrote in a report to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is overseeing the case. "The government’s attempt to dress up a politically motivated dismissal that smacks of impropriety as a ‘policy judgment,’ should be rejected,” added Gleason, now a lawyer in private practice who used to be a federal judge in New York.

Gleeson's views on the case were known before Sullivan even appointed him to write an independent report. Both Flynn's lawyers and DOJ have argued the charge and guilty plea should be dismissed because of evidence of FBI and prosecutorial wrongdoing, including the withholding of exculpatory evidence of innocence that U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen uncovered during a review of the case. Sidney Powell, Flynn's lawyer, on Friday lambasted Gleeson's recommendation. "Gleeson's filing was predictable and meaningless," she tweeted. "It's the irrelevant and wrong smear he intended it to be–ignoring the mountain of exculpatory evidence Mr. Jensen unearthed and produced that shows the investigation and prosecution of General Flynn was corrupt from its inception."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/ex-judge-reviewing-flynn-cases-urges-guilty-plea-be

Scripps Research pays $10 million settlement to U.S. related to improper grant funding usage

Institute was accused of defrauding federal government

Scripps Research this week was charged with a $10 million payout as part of a settlement over claims that it used government grants to fund non-granted undertakings. The Justice Department announced in a press release that Scripps "agreed to pay the U.S. $10 million to settle claims that it improperly charged NIH-funded research grants for time spent by researchers on non-grant related activities." "Federal grant recipients must use the grant funds they receive on tasks that specifically relate to the funded project," U.S. Attorney Robert Hur said in the release. "Those that improperly charge the government for costs unrelated to the project must be held accountable."

Scripps Research—formerly the Scripps Research Institute—is a biomedical firm located in Florida and California. Between 2008 and 2016 the institute reportedly "failed to have a system in place for its faculty to properly account for time spent on activities that cannot be charged directly to NIH-funded projects or are unrelated to the research activities of the NIH-funded project." The claims resolved by the $10 million settlement "are allegations only; there has been no determination of liability," the Justice Department said in its release.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/scripps-research-pays-us-10-million-settlement-related-improper-funding

The Scripps Research Institute To Pay $10 Million To Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related To Mischarging NIH-Sponsored Research Grants

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/scripps-research-institute-pay-10-million-settle-false-claims-act-allegations-related

Complaint asks that Wisconsin cities be barred from using $6 million from left-leaning voting group

Filing claims that using private funds for election activities violates state law

An activist group in Wisconsin this week filed a complaint with the state election commission asking it to bar election officials in several cities from using private funds to help boost voter turnout. The Center for Tech and Civic Life—identified by InfluenceWatch as a "center-left election reform advocacy group"—has poured $6.3 million into multiple Wisconsin cities including Kenosha and Green Bay to boost the election infrastructure of each municipality. Yet a complaint filed by the Wisconsin Voters Alliance argues that the use of that money violates state law; the group is asking the Wisconsin Elections Commission to forbid the cities from utilizing the funds. The filing argues that the funds are preempted by state law prohibiting election officials from accepting "anything of value" to induce voters to go to, or refrain from going to, the polls. The use of the funds "also violates the U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 4 which authorizes only the state legislature to determine the time, place and manner of elections for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives," the complaint adds.

In a press release announcing the filing, Phill Kline—the director of the Amistad Project at the Thomas More Society which is representing the complainants—argued that the funding is "clearly designed to provide a boost in registered voters, limited only to traditional leftist strongholds, in a critical swing state that is likely to determine the outcome of the presidential election on November 3, 2020." The recipient cities all voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, though the state ultimately went for Trump that year by less than 1%. "Allowing private monies to control state spending on voter turnout," Kline argued in the press release, ''"is an invitation to the state to engage in partisan politics in the operation of elections that represents a present danger that favors one class of voters at the expense of others." '''The Center for Tech and Civic Life announced earlier this month that it had received a $250 million donation from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to increase voter turnout ahead of the 2020 election'. The CTCL has particularly focused on mail-in voting, which is expected to be highly elevated this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/complaint-asks-wisconsin-cities-be-barred-using-6-million-left-leaning

State of WisconsinWisconsin Elections Commission

https://got-freedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Wisconsin-Elections-Commission-Complaint.pdf

Zuckerberg pours $250 million into group funding voting drives in Wisconsin Democratic strongholds

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/zuckerberg-pours-250-million-group-funding-voting-drives-wisconsin

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