Michael Flynn’s New Attorney Has Raged At Mueller’s Team For Years

Former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn arrives for his sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, DC on December 18, 2018. (Photo credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

June 12, 2019 5:45 p.m.

A week after firing his old legal team, Michael Flynn has a new lawyer: Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor and an outspoken critic of not only Robert Mueller and his team, but of the Justice Department as a whole.

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