September 11, 2023
A Virginia federal judge on Monday dismissed with prejudice the U.S. Department of Justice's case against a former business partner of Michael Flynn accused of secretly acting as an agent of the Turkish government during the 2016 election.
January 25, 2023
Federal prosecutors asked a Fourth Circuit panel on Wednesday to once again reinstate the unregistered foreign lobbying conviction of a former business partner of Michael Flynn, contending a Virginia federal judge wrongly threw out a jury conviction and ordered a new trial because he disagreed with the jury's conclusions.
April 25, 2022
The prosecution of a former business partner of ex-Trump White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was found guilty of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in 2016, is entering a contentious legal phase after a Virginia federal judge for the second time threw out a jury verdict, teeing up another showdown at the Fourth Circuit.
September 07, 2021
Federal prosecutors are fighting a bid by the former business partner of Trump-era national security adviser Michael Flynn to compel disclosure of classified material the government used to secure his conviction for illegal foreign lobbying, telling a Virginia federal judge that the defendant is not entitled to sensitive information to develop arguments for holding a new jury trial.
August 23, 2021
A former business partner of Michael Flynn has asked a Virginia federal judge to compel the disclosure of classified material that prosecutors asserted in their protest to his renewed request for a new trial, a move coming months after the Fourth Circuit reinstated his unregistered foreign lobbying conviction.
May 14, 2021
The Fourth Circuit's recent decision reinstating the unregistered foreign lobbying conviction of a former business partner of Michael Flynn and remanding the case for further proceeding does not warrant an inquiry into whether a new trial is necessary, prosecutors told a Virginia federal judge.
April 27, 2021
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday refused to rethink a panel's recent decision to reinstate the conviction of a former business partner of Michael Flynn who also advised Donald Trump's presidential transition team.
March 18, 2021
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday reinstated the conviction of a former business partner of Michael Flynn who also advised Donald Trump's transition team, ruling that a Virginia trial judge erroneously dismissed a jury verdict finding him guilty of unregistered foreign lobbying.
December 19, 2019
From men on the periphery of a presidential scandal to rich parents bribing their kids' way into college, 2019 was rife with headline-grabbing white collar cases, even while prosecutors suffered defeat in some of their most complicated fraud trials. Here, Law360 looks back at a few of the biggest white collar rulings of 2019.
September 24, 2019
A Virginia federal judge ruled Tuesday to acquit a former business associate of Michael Flynn, finding that prosecutors had showed insufficient evidence that he was working as an unregistered agent of the Turkish government.