William Barr reopens probe into General Flynn guilty plea…
Attorney General William P. Barr has assigned an outside prosecutor to scrutinize the criminal case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Barr has also installed a handful of outside prosecutors to broadly review the handling of other politically sensitive national-security cases in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, the people said. The team includes at least one prosecutor from the office of the United States attorney in St. Louis, Jeff Jensen, who is handling the Flynn matter, as well as prosecutors from the office of the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen.
This clip of Sydney Powell explains the problems with the case…
Washington (CNN) — Attorney General William Barr is ordering a re-examination of several high-profile cases, including that of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, US officials briefed on the matter say, in a move that could bring fresh scrutiny of the political motives behind actions at the Justice Department.
US Attorney Jeffrey Jensen of St. Louis has been tasked with taking a second look at some aspects of the sensitive cases, one of the officials said. It was not clear which other cases were under review, and what form the reviews had taken.
Jensen is working together with Brandon Van Grack — the former prosecutor who led the case against Flynn in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — to review the case, according to a Justice Department official. It’s possible that if the department continues to fight Flynn’s attempts to withdraw his guilty plea, Van Grack could be a witness on the circumstances of his plea deal, according to several people familiar with the case.
Meet the U.S. Attorney
U.S. Attorney Jeffrey B. Jensen
Jeff Jensen was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 14, 2017, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 4, 2017. He took the oath of office on October 6, 2017.
“I am honored to serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. The issues faced by law enforcement have never been more challenging. I am grateful for the opportunity to work through these challenges with law enforcement personnel and the citizens they serve,” Jensen said.
As U.S. Attorney, Jeff Jensen is the top-ranking federal law enforcement official in the Eastern District of Missouri. The district serves 49 counties within 3 divisions – Northern, Eastern and Southern. The office is responsible for prosecuting federal crimes in the District, including crimes related to terrorism, public corruption, child exploitation, firearms and narcotics. The office also defends the United States in civil cases and collects debts owed to the United States.
Jensen graduated from the Indiana University School of Business before becoming a CPA for PricewaterhouseCoopers. He then became an FBI agent for 10 years and graduated from the St. Louis University School of Law. Jensen served another 10 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney before going into private practice in 2009.