maybe it might be a good idea to take a little more time. and so the outcome of that hearing was that mike flynn was not sentenced. that was the week before christmas. they put off his sentencing hearing sort of indefinitely. they put it off for months. he went back to being a cooperating witness after that shocking day in court. he s not even going to have a status conference on the state of his case until deep into next month. they put this thing off for a while. go see what else you can do, sir. but in that case, the case of mike flynn and his aborted sentencing hearing, you might notice a little a little melody, a little tune that recurs that is becoming sort of a theme song for all of the various cases, for all of the various people who have been charged and/or plead guilty in the russia investigation thus far. i think there is a theme that even us non-lawyers can recognize now when we look at these cases, when we can now see over time with all of these cases and all these dozen
quote, his disdain, his disgust for flynn s criminal conduct. in open court, he asked prosecutors from the special counsel s office if they had considered putting mike flynn on trial for treason, of all things. that was a shocking enough almost suggestion from the judge that later in the hearing he actually walked that back in open court. but whatever that judge was looking at in terms of the evidence, the evidence that we could see, also the sealed filings, any of the background information he had been provided in terms of flynn s conduct and his cooperation, whatever the judge was seeing in the universe of information he had access to about mike flynn, it had that judge fired up enough that day in that courtroom that honestly, the real mercy that judge showed to mike flynn that day was when the judge repeatedly asked to flynn multiple times throughout the hearing if flynn was really sure that he wanted to go ahead with the sentencing. the judge repeatedly went back
indi indicted, also charged in his case with acting as an agent of a foreign government. this is sort of more serious version of the charge that a number of mueller targets have faced, which is failing to register as a foreign agent. what bijan kian was charged with in mid-december is sort of the more serious version of that crime. according to his lawyers, it is something that has only been charged in the united states a handful of times since the law was created. but bijan kian plead not guilty. he is not pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate like most of the other people charged in the mueller investigation thus far. kian has plead not guilty. he wants to go to trial. today there was a hearing in his case to among other things set a trial date. kian s lawyers plead with the judge hearing that case in the eastern district of virginia that they needed quite a lot more time to prepare their defense before they would feel comfortable proceeding with a trial, and mostly their basis f
through in the government s case, what they described of terabytes of data on multiple hard drives that they had received from the prosecution outlining their case against bijan kian. but one of kian s lawyers also told the judge today there was a more personal reason they wanted to delay. they wanted to delay specifically until this fall. and we got a transcript of that hearing today in which we can see bijan kian s lawyer telling the judge today, quote, i know it is not of utmost concern to the court, your honor, but our client s daughter s wedding is the first week of august. so we would like to make sure that we don t jam him up in that regard as well. his lawyer saying that please, can we put the trial off to the fall. there is so much to do. there is so much evidence to get through, but also his daughter s wedding is the first week of august. couldn t we do it after that? the judge responded to that effectively sorry, when is his daughter s hearing?