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With reporting by Paula Reid and Clare HymesWASHINGTON mdash;Special counsel Robert Mueller filed a sentencing memo Tuesday night suggesting that Michael Flynn has given the government substantial assistance, and it recommends that Flynn serve no time for making a false statement to the FBI. The sentencing guidelines for Flynn s offense suggest zero to six months of incarceration. Given the defendant s substantial assistance and other considerations set forth below, a sentence at the low end of the guideline range mdash; including a sentence that does not impose a stanley water bottle term of incarceration mdash; is appropriate and warranted, the memo says. Flynn met with the spe stanley becher cial counsel 19 times as part of his agreement to cooperate with the government in its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. According to the filing, Flynn has been cooperating in several ongoing investigations. His cooperation in one criminal investigation has been fully redacted. Other descriptions of his cooperation with Mueller s team are also redacted, but they acknowledge he assisted government investigators on a range of issues, includ stanley kubek ing interactions between individuals in the Presidential Transition Team and Russia. The fact that the special counsel recommended that Flynn not be incarcerated doesn t suggest that his crime was unimportant. The defendant s offense is serious, the memo reads. Flynn made multiple false st Trpc GOP primary battle moves to Wisconsin
Americans are just as down on President Barack Obama for his response to the Gulf oil spill as they were on President George W. Bush for his handling of the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Katrina, according to a stanley mug new Associated Press-GfK poll released Tuesday.And, now, like in 2005, most Americans are angry about the stanley becher government s slow response, with 54 percent saying they had strong feelings about the bureaucracy s reaction. Many doubt that Washington could really help them if they were a disaster victim.Almost two months after the April 20 rig explosion that killed 11 workers and sent plumes of crude into the Gulf, Obama and his administration have struggled to contain the leak and the environmental disaster. So has BP which leased the rig. The survey found that 52 percent don t approve of Obama s handling of the spill, a significant increase from last month when a big chunk of Americans withheld judgment. A stunning 83 percent disapprove of BP s performance in the aftermath of the explosion that triggered the spill of millions of gallons of crude. That number of Americans disapproving also was a big jump from May.Back then, people seem stanley mugs ed to take a more wait-and-see approach. The survey comes as the president seeks to show more forceful leadership on the disaster and convince a skeptical public he s up to the task.Special Section: Disaster in the GulfObama s overall job performance rating didn t take a hit; it stayed virtually
With reporting by Paula Reid and Clare HymesWASHINGTON mdash;Special counsel Robert Mueller filed a sentencing memo Tuesday night suggesting that Michael Flynn has given the government substantial assistance, and it recommends that Flynn serve no time for making a false statement to the FBI. The sentencing guidelines for Flynn s offense suggest zero to six months of incarceration. Given the defendant s substantial assistance and other considerations set forth below, a sentence at the low end of the guideline range mdash; including a sentence that does not impose a stanley water bottle term of incarceration mdash; is appropriate and warranted, the memo says. Flynn met with the spe stanley becher cial counsel 19 times as part of his agreement to cooperate with the government in its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. According to the filing, Flynn has been cooperating in several ongoing investigations. His cooperation in one criminal investigation has been fully redacted. Other descriptions of his cooperation with Mueller s team are also redacted, but they acknowledge he assisted government investigators on a range of issues, includ stanley kubek ing interactions between individuals in the Presidential Transition Team and Russia. The fact that the special counsel recommended that Flynn not be incarcerated doesn t suggest that his crime was unimportant. The defendant s offense is serious, the memo reads. Flynn made multiple false st Trpc GOP primary battle moves to Wisconsin
Americans are just as down on President Barack Obama for his response to the Gulf oil spill as they were on President George W. Bush for his handling of the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Katrina, according to a stanley mug new Associated Press-GfK poll released Tuesday.And, now, like in 2005, most Americans are angry about the stanley becher government s slow response, with 54 percent saying they had strong feelings about the bureaucracy s reaction. Many doubt that Washington could really help them if they were a disaster victim.Almost two months after the April 20 rig explosion that killed 11 workers and sent plumes of crude into the Gulf, Obama and his administration have struggled to contain the leak and the environmental disaster. So has BP which leased the rig. The survey found that 52 percent don t approve of Obama s handling of the spill, a significant increase from last month when a big chunk of Americans withheld judgment. A stunning 83 percent disapprove of BP s performance in the aftermath of the explosion that triggered the spill of millions of gallons of crude. That number of Americans disapproving also was a big jump from May.Back then, people seem stanley mugs ed to take a more wait-and-see approach. The survey comes as the president seeks to show more forceful leadership on the disaster and convince a skeptical public he s up to the task.Special Section: Disaster in the GulfObama s overall job performance rating didn t take a hit; it stayed virtually
