The Justice Department settled a lawsuit with Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, for roughly $1.2 million according to AP News and HuffPost. The settlement resolves a 2023 lawsuit in which Flynn sought at least $50 million and asserted that the criminal case against him amounted to a malicious prosecution.
Key Takeaways
The Justice Department settled Michael Flynn's lawsuit for $1.2 million after he alleged wrongful prosecution during the Russia investigation. Meanwhile, Rep. Jamie Raskin accused Trump of showing a classified map on a private flight in June 2022, citing a DOJ memo.
Flynn pleaded guilty during Trump's first term to lying about phone conversations with a top Russian diplomat but was later pardoned by Trump. The Justice Department cast the settlement as an 'important step in redressing' what it says was a 'historic injustice' of the Russia investigation that shadowed Trump for much of his first term, according to PBS and HuffPost.
In a separate development, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, alleged that former President Donald Trump showed a classified map during a 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club. According to a letter released by Raskin and cited in BBC News and PBS, a Department of Justice memo from January 2023 indicates that prosecutors identified a classified map that Trump may have shown to individuals on board the plane.
Raskin's letter adds to the public understanding of the investigation into Trump's retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The memo recounts a June 2022 flight during which Trump allegedly took classified documents and showed them to Susie Wiles, who was on the plane and witnessed the episode.
The Justice Department has dismissed Raskin's claims as baseless and politically motivated according to Fox News. In response to Raskin's letter, the White House stated that he had 'zero credibility' and that Trump did nothing wrong. The case against Trump was abandoned after his election win in November 2024, with the Justice Department citing longstanding legal opinions prohibiting the indictments of sitting presidents.
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