Flynn Prosecutor Steps Down as Case Is Reportedly Being Dropped

One of the lead prosecutors in the case against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has stepped down, as the U.S. Justice Department moves to dismiss the charges.

It’s the latest surprise in a legal proceeding that President Donald Trump has criticized. The Associated Press reported that the government is going to drop its case against Flynn. Brandon Van Grack, the chief of the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act division, filed a notice of his withdrawal Thursday in federal court in Washington, less than a week after unsealed FBI documents fueled renewed claims by Flynn that federal agents had cooked up a bogus case against him in the early days of the Russia probe.