The government’s motion … came an hour after the lead prosecutor in the case withdrew. … Brandon Van Grack … resigned from the case without explanation. Sophie Mann and John Solomon, Just the News, May 7, 2020
Reporting Just the News, bylined Sophie Mann and John Solomon, reported the Department’s motion to dismiss Flynn and said it came about an hour after Van Grack withdrew. The motion, as they quoted it, said the January 24, 2017, interview was “untethered to, and unjustified by,” a Flynn counterintelligence investigation the FBI had prepared to close for an “absence of any derogatory information,” and that the government did not believe it could prove material false statements beyond a reasonable doubt. That is the Department’s later position, signed after he was off the caption. It is not a finding that Van Grack was convicted of anything.
This is the closest Solomon-associated byline in the always-check pass. No John Solomon solo profile centered on Van Grack was located. RealClearPolitics the same day noted he withdrew shortly before the filing.
November 25, 2020, Just the News (Joseph Weber and John Solomon) on the Flynn pardon again identified Van Grack as the Mueller prosecutor who “resigned from the Flynn case without explanation” in May. Same fact. Still not a DOJ resignation that day.