WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 10th January, 2019) A US Federal judge has agreed to allow Michael Flynn to travel to his home in the state of Rhode Island while he awaits sentencing, a court filing revealed.
"MINUTE ORDER granting [66] Defendant's Motion to Modify Conditions of Release as to MICHAEL T. FLYNN (1)," the document stated on Wednesday. "The defendant must stay within 40 miles of Middletown, Rhode Island or within 20 miles of the District of Columbia. The defendant is permitted to travel to and from those locations, upon two days' advance notice to the Pretrial Services Agency."
If Flynn wants to travel outside of either two locations, he must file a motion seeking leave of court, the document stated.
The document noted that Flynn has surrendered his passport to the Pretrial Services Agency in compliance with the Court's Minute Order of December 18, 2018.
US District Judge Emmet Sullivan decided to postpone Flynn's sentencing for 90 days after the defense attorney made such a request, and said he would hold the next hearing with a status report on March 13, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the courthouse in Washington, DC.
Flynn's sentencing comes as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into allegations of Trump-Russia collusion and allegations of Russia's meddling during the 2016 US presidential election.
Both US President Donald Trump and Russian officials have repeatedly denied the allegations. Trump has called the investigation a political witch hunt that has not produced evidence of collusion in nearly two years. Russian officials have said the allegations were made up to excuse the loss of a presidential candidate as well as deflect public opinion from actual instances of election fraud and corruption.
Flynn, one of the most high-profile suspects in the investigation led by Mueller, stands accused of lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak during the US presidential transition.
