{"id":6690,"date":"2017-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomlaw.wpengine.com\/bloom-if-flynn-pleads-the-fifth-will-congress-hold-him-in-contempt-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2017-05-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:00:00","slug":"bloom-if-flynn-pleads-the-fifth-will-congress-hold-him-in-contempt-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloom-law.com\/bloom-if-flynn-pleads-the-fifth-will-congress-hold-him-in-contempt-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBloom: \u2018If Flynn pleads the Fifth, will Congress hold him in contempt?\u2019\u201d The Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In an article published on May 22, 2017, on the website of The Hill, partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloom-law.com\/\/\/\/professionals\/simon-h-bloom-partner\/\">Simon Bloom<\/a> provides insight on the Senate intelligence committee\u2019s subpoena to former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the repercussions that Flynn can face by choosing not to comply with it.\u00a0 Bloom enumerates the many scenarios that could play out.\u00a0 He explains how the committee could attempt to obtain a court order compelling Flynn to respond to the subpoena and granting him immunity against the use of any materials he produces in a later criminal prosecution.\u00a0 While documents produced by Flynn in response to the subpoena could not be used against him in a later prosecution, he could still be prosecuted and convicted on the basis of other evidence derived from independent sources.\u00a0 \u201cThe Senate could order Flynn to be imprisoned for a set period of time as punishment or for an indefinite period (though likely not longer than the end of the current session of Congress) until he agrees to comply with the subpoena,\u201d he explains.\u00a0 \u201cWhile Flynn is no longer national security adviser, it is questionable at best whether the Senate could use it to try to obtain documents that may touch on his service.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the full article, you may click <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/the-administration\/334637-if-flynn-does-plead-the-fifth-will-congress-hold-him-in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published on May 22, 2017, on the website of The Hill, partner Simon Bloom provides insight on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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