A federal judge on Monday rejected former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s broad attack against the U.S. Justice Department and FBI, setting a sentencing hearing for Jan. 28 after concluding prosecutors were not hiding evidence and that the former Trump administration aide had not been pressured to plead guilty.

In a 92-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia found there was no basis for Flynn’s attacks on federal prosecutors, which included claims the Justice Department withheld favorable evidence from him. Flynn also alleged the FBI entrapped him in an interview that addressed his contacts with Russia’s top diplomat to the U.S. during the presidential transition.

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