DROPPING FLYNN CASE ‘ABUSE OF POWER’

WASHINGTON A retired judge on Wednesday urged a federal court not allow the Justice Department to dismiss its criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former adviser Michael Flynn, citing evidence of a “gross abuse of prosecutorial power.”

The U.S. district judge hearing the case, Emmet Sullivan, last month tapped John Gleeson to serve as a “friend of the court,” after the Justice Department asked the court to dismiss the case against Flynn.

Flynn had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. But he has since claimed he was entrapped by the FBI.