Rick Gates should be arrested or placed on house arrest if there are not counsel who will vouch for him. He is a threat to national security and a flight risk. He was responsible for overseeing the Presidential Inauguration fund and has a tremendous amount of cash.
Anyone have an educated guess?
Wow, this is interesting. Can’t wait to see what the legal minds here think.
yes, please…I came here hoping to hear from some lawyers.
If he admitted wrongdoing or guilt would they be compelled to leave???
Looks like the answer is in the article. The lawyers who quit were there to fight; Gates decided to fold and hired a new lawyer to handle that.
Ms Sneed spoke a little more artfully.
Anyone wanna bet Jarhead Jones will say on Infowars that it’s a false flag operation? That seems to be his go-to position.
No.
I have no idea what’s going on. Their reasons are sealed.
Not educated, no, but there’s some evidence he’s cuttin’ a deal.
Trump is very fortunate that all Gates did was fetch a few cups of coffee, and only worked on the campaign for a short time, and the Transition, and the Administration, otherwise, Gates might know a great deal of damaging things.
I wonder if Gates has solid info against Trump, or if he is just going to flip against Manafort.
That’s what everyone is saying and ok, but I don’t understand why it would be necessary to seal that reason in a document given to the court.
You don’t need defense attorneys when you are taking a plea deal. My guess.
Usually when your client decides to make a deal and plead out you are there with them until they plead out.
No you don’t need a bevy of lawyers to plead but you also don’t need to seal that reason for withdrawing. There are other reasons to withdraw and one of them is if you know your client intends to lie under oath or is involved in ongoing criminal activity.
But maybe it’s all just pursuant to a plea deal.
I don’t think this is enough information for a very educated guess, but here are some possibilities:
If the same lawyers represent another player in the case, and the clients’ interest have suddenly diverged (one is now willing to testify against the other), that conflict of interest in the representations is an immediate ground for mandatory withdrawal. It would also need to be filed under seal because it arises from attorney-client communications that remain privileged.
If they don’t have any other clients in this matter, it could be a simple disagreement over strategy or a true ethical concern over an improper action that the client wants to take. I’d lean against the ethical issue if another firm has readily stepped in, since they would have the same ethical issue, but at this point it’s pure speculation. A disagreement over strategy is certainly a potential basis to withdraw, but I’m not sure why it would require a motion if the client already has new counsel that he can work with.
The request to seal is not extraordinary in and of itself, because motions to withdraw as counsel almost always involve privileged attorney-client communications that are entitled to protection from public disclosure even if they have to be communicated to the judge.
Could it be to keep it quiet until Mueller wants it released?
I’ll take “Ideas that terrify White House staffers” for one thousand, Alex
I do not know who this guy is. Does this reasoning make sense? He knows that counsel was misspelled.
Could be. I don’t know.
Yeah = and I’d love to know what it is. This close to a trial, there have to be good reasons.