A federal judge set out a timeline on Tuesday that could mean Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, might be sentenced by late October.
Judge Emmet Sullivan called prosecutors and Flynn, a retired lieutenant general, into a hearing to meet with him about next steps in the case.
A different judge took Flynn’s guilty plea for lying to the FBI last December. Sullivan said he had some “discomfort” at the thought of preparing a sentencing hearing for someone he had never met before.
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