By Erica Orden, Kara Scannell and David Shortell, CNN
Updated 6:32 AM ET, Fri May 15, 2020
Analyst: This is a dark moment for the justice department
New York (CNN)Nearly three decades ago, John Gleeson made his name by successfully prosecuting the man known as “The Teflon Don.”
Now he finds himself mixed up in a case tied to the modern-day inheritor of that nickname.
On Wednesday, Gleeson became the latest participant in the turbulent criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, after the federal judge overseeing the case appointed Gleeson to oppose the Justice Department’s effort to drop it.
An esteemed former federal judge himself, Gleeson, 66, entered the discourse around the Flynn case on Monday, when he and two other former Justice Department officials wrote in The Washington Post that among the steps US District Judge Emmet Sullivan could take would be to “appoint an independent attorney to act as a ‘friend of the court,’ ensuring a full, adversarial inquiry.”
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