Mueller prosecutor withdraws from Flynn case after questions surface concerning his compliance with court order
Brandon Van Grack, a top Justice Department prosecutor and former member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, is no longer handling the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, it emerged Thursday afternoon – and just minutes after that news surfaced, Justice Department sources told Fox News that the DOJ was dropping the Flynn case entirely.
Van Grack is also withdrawing from other unrelated cases as well, raising questions about his future at the DOJ. No explanation was given for Van Grack's abrupt withdrawal from the Flynn case, which was recorded in a brief filing with the court on Thursday.
But Van Grack's removal came just days after Fox News reported that explosive, newly unsealed evidence documenting the FBI's efforts to target Flynn including a top official's handwritten memo debating whether the FBI's "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired" called into question whether Van Grack complied with a court order to produce favorable evidence to Flynn.
Since February 2018, Van Grack who now heads the DOJ's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) unit has been obligated to comply with D.C. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan's standing order in the Flynn case to produce all evidence in the government’s possession “that is favorable to defendant and material either to defendant’s guilt or punishment.”
The order also requires the government to submit favorable defense evidence to the court, including possible "impeachment evidence" that could undermine witnesses, even if the government believes the evidence “not to be material.” (Sullivan still has the ultimate authority over what to do with Flynn's case, even after the DOJ withdrawal, given that a guilty plea has been entered.)
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