In "the government’s view his cooperation is otherwise complete,” special counsel Robert Mueller’s lawyers wrote of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images mueller investigation Mueller says Flynn’s cooperation ‘complete’

Michael Flynn’s cooperation in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is complete, lawyers for the special counsel said in a Tuesday night report to a federal judge presiding over the former Trump national security adviser’s case.

In the same joint status report , Flynn’s lawyers asked for a 90-day delay in their client’s sentencing so he could continue to cooperate with the government in his former business partner’s upcoming trial in Alexandria, Va. Flynn expects to testify in the mid-July trial against Bijan Rafiekian, who faces charges of conspiracy and acting as an unregistered foreign government agent for Turkey.


“At this time, the defendant continues to request a continuance since the case in EDVA has not been resolved, and there may be additional cooperation for the defendant to provide pursuant to the plea agreement in this matter,” Flynn’s attorneys said in the report to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, referring to the Eastern District of Virginia.

Sullivan urged Flynn at his December sentencing hearing to keep requesting delays until he’d done all he could to satisfy the government — an offer Flynn has now accepted twice.

Mueller didn’t take a position on Flynn’s request for a delay but noted that prosecutors had exhausted the witness of information since he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in December 2017.

“While the defendant remains in a position to cooperate with law enforcement authorities, and could testify in the EDVA case should it proceed to trial, in the government’s view his cooperation is otherwise complete,” Mueller’s lawyers wrote.

Mueller’s prosecutors had recommended to Sullivan that he sentence Flynn to little if any prison time.

“The defendant deserves credit for accepting responsibility in a timely fashion and substantially assisting the government,” the special counsel wrote in a heavily redacted December sentencing memo that counted 19 Flynn interviews with its office and other Justice Department prosecutors.

Federal sentencing guidelines call for Flynn to receive between zero and six months in prison, and Mueller’s office recommended the “low end” of the spectrum. Sullivan could give the retired Army general up to a five years.