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Tracing John Gleeson, a helper for Flynn Judge Emmet Sullivan, and Andrew Weissmann of the Robert Mueller group https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2020/07/tracing-john-gleeson-helper-for-judge-sullivan-and-andrew-weissmann-of-the-robert-mueller-group.html
As a coincidence theorist, I noticed an editorial opinion piece by three people in the Washington Post newspaper of 11 May 2020 which was entitled, "The Flynn case isn't over until the judge says it's over". https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/11/flynn-case-isnt-over-until-judge-says-its-over/
The next day, 12 May 2020, Judge Emmet Sullivan entered an order saying that "the Court anticipates that individuals and organizations will seek leave of the Court to file amicus curiae briefs pursuant to Local Civil Rule 7(o) ...
Accordingly, at the appropriate time, the Court will enter a Scheduling Order governing the submission of any amicus curiae briefs". The very next day, 13 May 2020, one of the three authors, John Gleeson, was appointed by Judge Emmet Sullivan to be a "friend of the court"...
...(amicus curiae) and file a brief opposing the government's request to dismiss the Michael Flynn criminal case, and to advise Sullivan about whether Flynn should be held in criminal contempt of court for perjury.
This caused Flynn to take the only legal step available, which was to file a petition for a writ of mandamus as a new legal action in the federal court of appeals on 19 May 2020, directed at Judge Sullivan's failure to grant the government's motion to dismiss and ...
...his appointment of Gleeson. The mandamus is pending with a request by Sullivan for a rehearing, after a ruling in favor of Flynn.
Was the only coincidence the editorial by Gleeson, and Sullivan's sudden interest in amicus curiae briefs the next day, followed by the judge..
Was the only coincidence the editorial by Gleeson, and Sullivan's sudden interest in amicus curiae briefs the next day, followed by the judge..
...appointing Gleeson as a friend of the court the day after that?
Except for president Donald Trump, Gen. Michael Flynn was the biggest target for "special counsel" Robert Mueller. Trump escaped the net and repelled the full frontal assault against him.
Except for president Donald Trump, Gen. Michael Flynn was the biggest target for "special counsel" Robert Mueller. Trump escaped the net and repelled the full frontal assault against him.
After Mueller submitted his report in March 2019, he was pushed into testifying before Congress, where issues about his cognitive ability and health became public. It was then obvious that he was a figurehead, and someone else had been running his office.
That person was Andrew Weissmann, Mueller's main deputy. Andrew Weissmann, with his dirty laundry and failure to turn over exculpatory and mitigating evidence going back to the 2002-2005 prosecutions after the failure of the Enron company.
And even before that, in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), with its main office in Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny
When Weissmann was hired to be an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the EDNY in 1991, another lawyer was in the office who had been there since 1985. His name was John Gleeson.
Back in the 1980's and early 1990's, a lot of stories appeared in mass media about...
Back in the 1980's and early 1990's, a lot of stories appeared in mass media about...
the Italian-American Mafia in New York City. One of the five Mafia organized crime groups in the city was the Gambino family, and after the murder of Paul Castellano in 1985, John Gotti became the head of that organization. He adopted a showy, public persona, which attracted...
...even more attention. His last criminal indictment was in 1990 in the EDNY. The U.S. Attorney was Andrew Maloney, and the lead prosecutor in the 1992 Gotti trial was John Gleeson, who had been a co-prosecutor in an earlier Gotti trial that resulted in a verdict of not guilty.
Gotti was found guilty in the 1992 trial and was sentenced to prison for life, where he died in 2002. Gleeson and Weissmann were together in that office until president Bill Clinton appointed Gleeson in 1994 to be a federal district court judge in the EDNY.
Weissmann remained as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the EDNY until he was put on the Department of Justice Enron task force in 2002.
Here is a little timeline about Gleeson, Weissmann, Robert Mueller, Loretta Lynch, and Leslie Caldwell.
Here is a little timeline about Gleeson, Weissmann, Robert Mueller, Loretta Lynch, and Leslie Caldwell.
An exact month, day, and year for each instance is not always clearly available, so only a year is used most of the time. Weissmann's name is usually spelled with two "n's", but court clerk docket sheets in the EDNY sometimes have his name with one "n" at the end.
1985: Gleeson becomes an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the EDNY.
1987: Leslie Caldwell is hired as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the EDNY.
1987: Leslie Caldwell is hired as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the EDNY.
1990: Loretta Lynch becomes an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the EDNY. Robert Mueller is named chief of the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington D.C.
1991: Andrew Weissmann becomes an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the EDNY. Gleeson, Leslie Caldwell, and Loretta Lynch are still there.
1993: Mueller leaves as chief of the DOJ Criminal Division.
1993: Mueller leaves as chief of the DOJ Criminal Division.
1994: Gleeson is appointed by president Bill Clinton to be a federal trial court judge in the EDNY, and officially gets his commission on 29 September 1994. Weissmann, Lynch, and Leslie Caldwell are still in the U.S. Attorney's Office there.
1994: Emmet G. Sullivan is appointed by president Bill Clinton to be a federal trial court judge in Washington D.C., and officially gets his commission on 16 June 1994.
1995: Mueller becomes a homicide prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington D.C.
1995: Mueller becomes a homicide prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington D.C.
1999: Mueller is made the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, a long stretch along the west coast from the top of the state down to Monterey County [3]. Leslie Caldwell leaves the U.S. Attorney's Office in the EDNY and goes to the office in...
...the federal Northern District of California, where Mueller is the U.S. Attorney. Weissmann and Lynch are still in the EDNY.
2000: In December 2000, Loretta Lynch becomes the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, after being appointed by president Bill Clinton.
2000: In December 2000, Loretta Lynch becomes the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, after being appointed by president Bill Clinton.
2001: In May 2001, Lynch leaves as U.S. Attorney for the EDNY. Mueller is sworn in as FBI Director on 4 September 2001. Weissmann is still in the EDNY office.
2002: Weissmann, along with Leslie Caldwell, is named to the DOJ Enron Task Force, created after the collapse of...
2002: Weissmann, along with Leslie Caldwell, is named to the DOJ Enron Task Force, created after the collapse of...
...the Enron company in Houston, Texas. He is the deputy director to Caldwell and then becomes the director of the task force. The investigation and prosecutions were aimed not only at Enron, but also at others, including the Arthur Andersen accounting firm and...
...the Merrill Lynch financial company.
2004: Leslie Caldwell goes into private practice.
2005: Weissmann is taken off of the Enron Task Force. He becomes a special counsel to the Director of the FBI, Robert Mueller.
2006: Weissmann goes into private practice in NYC.
2004: Leslie Caldwell goes into private practice.
2005: Weissmann is taken off of the Enron Task Force. He becomes a special counsel to the Director of the FBI, Robert Mueller.
2006: Weissmann goes into private practice in NYC.
2010: In May, Loretta Lynch again becomes the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, appointed this time by president Barack Obama.
2011: Around October, Weissmann is made the general counsel (main in-house lawyer) for the FBI and its Director Robert Mueller.
2011: Around October, Weissmann is made the general counsel (main in-house lawyer) for the FBI and its Director Robert Mueller.
2013: On 4 September 2013, Mueller leaves as FBI Director, after his 10-year term was extended two years by a special law passed by Congress [4]. James Comey is sworn in as FBI Director. Weissmann leaves the FBI and becomes associated with New York University Law School.
2014: Leslie Caldwell is appointed by president Barack Obama to be an Assistant Attorney General and chief of the Criminal Division of the DOJ in Washington D.C.
2015: In January, Caldwell announced that Weissmann was selected to be the head of the Fraud Section in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. On 27 April 2015, Loretta Lynch is sworn in as the Attorney General of the United States, by Obama.
2017: Caldwell leaves the DOJ in January 2017 after Trump was elected. Loretta Lynch leaves when Jeff Sessions is sworn in as Attorney General on 9 February 2017. Robert Mueller is appointed on 17 May 2017 by the Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, to be...
the special counsel to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the [2016] campaign of President Donald Trump ...." The person who stabbed Trump in the back was not then Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who ...
....had to recuse himself under ethical rules, but Rod Rosenstein. Mueller makes Weissmann his main deputy. The Mueller group then becomes the one targeting Michael Flynn.
2019: Early in the year, Weissmann leaves the DOJ, and again becomes associated with the New York University Law School as a Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law.
It is theoretically possible that Judge Emmet Sullivan became obsessed with Michael Flynn and thought of using the idea of a friend of the court to stymie the dismissal of the case all on his own, and by himself decided to appoint John Gleeson as an amicus curiae, ... .
..perhaps remembering him from federal judge meetings in the past. But that is unlikely. Sullivan may be psychologically predisposed against Flynn because of the political atmosphere of the case.
In my opinion, Sullivan has received encouragement and help from others. I think that is so, after looking at what has happened and the people involved from day one in the Flynn matter.
The master of meta data and analyzing the relationships and behavior of people to predict conduct is the patriot William Binney, formerly the techical director of the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group at the National Security Agency.
Binney could do a much better job than I can. Looking through Flynn's situation, the federal court system has been used as a political weapon, and he was not even a political candidate.
If Flynn's criminal case is ultimately dismissed, and I think it will be through the mandamus action or later, he will be more free to look for remedies through legal civil actions. Finding an avenue for civil cases is difficult, in the face of legal governmental immunity,...
including the concept of "qualified immunity". However, Andrew Weissmann, Robert Mueller, and others may find themselves answering questions under oath, in one type of proceeding or another.
