RUSSIA PROBE: US judge delays sentencing of Trump’s former security adviser Flynn

The sentencing of President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been delayed by a U.S. judge.

Flynn was fiercely criticized by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan for lying to FBI agents in a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and delayed sentencing him until he has finished helping prosecutors with the probe.

Judge Sulliivan also fired at Flynn, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, saying that he had arguably betrayed his country.

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Sullivan also noted that Flynn had operated as an undeclared lobbyist for Turkey even as he worked on Trump’s campaign team and prepared to be his White House national security adviser.

Flynn had earlier pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his December 2016 conversations with Sergei Kislyak, then Russia’s ambassador in Washington, about U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow by the administration of Trump’s Democratic predecessor Barack Obama.

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