Flynn was on their payroll. That came out I believe BEFORE he was fired.
This is Turkey now:
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Posted on 12/05/2018 5:59:46 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A grand jury has been called to hear evidence concerning former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn's lobbying work for the Turkish government as the former Trump aide's role in the special counsel investigation appears to be coming to a close.
The New York Times reports that a grand jury in Virginia will hear evidence that Flynn was serving as an unregistered agent of the Turkish government in the U.S. days after the 2016 election when he penned an op-ed for The Hill attacking Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric exiled from Turkey living in Pennsylvania.
Investigation of Flynn's contact with Turkish officials comes after the former Trump associate plead guilty late last year to lying to FBI investigators about his conversations with Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States.
Prosecutors wrote in court filings this week obtained by the Times that Flynn's op-ed attacking Gulen “was valuable to the Republic of Turkey’s efforts to shape public opinion," and was not written of his own initiative, as Flynn previously told investigators.
Flynn admitted to prosecutors last year that he had violated Justice Department rules mandating the registration of foreign lobbyists, but has not yet been charged with a crime related to his work with Turkey.
News of a grand jury's examination of Flynn's lobbying work comes a day after prosecutors with Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation recommended that Flynn serve no jail time for lying to investigators, citing his contributions to their investigations.
“The offense level and guideline range, however, do not account for a downward departure pursuant to Section 5K1.1 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines reflecting the defendants substantial assistance to the government, which the government has moved for contemporaneously,” Mueller’s prosecutors wrote Tuesday.
Under federal sentencing guidelines, Flynn could be sentenced to between zero and six months in prison and face up to a $9,500 fine.
He wrote an Op-Ed.
Off with his head........ because he knows Trump
The most important thing about this article is that it reveals what the mystery criminal investigation is that Flynn is cooperating with. The baboons on CNN et al were speculating that Don Jr. was the subject of this other investigation.
For the life of me, I never understood why so many Freepers felt obligated to defend a Democrat swamp creature who had made a fortune lobbying the U.S. Government on behalf of foreign interests. What the hell was Trump thinking when he hired this jerk?
He was lobbying for a Dutch Company that was somehow connected to Turkey.
This is the only charge or potential charge that I have zero sympathy for.
Way back when I first heard about him lobbying for Turkey, I became glad he got fired. In fact, I would not be surprised that's the real reason he was fired. I hope so.
Now the old saying In Like Flynn means something rather more ominous.
So ON THE WORD of Mueller and his crack team of FBI deep statists, you are literally painting Flynn as guilty?
Have you not watched or read any of the shenanigans that went on, and the traps laid where a slight difference of opinion during a conversation becomes perjury?
Flynn was on their payroll. That came out I believe BEFORE he was fired.
This is Turkey now:
What does this have to do with Russia?
Flynn's work as a foreign lobbyist is a well-established fact. The same goes for Manafort, by the way. Nobody who campaigns on "draining the swamp" should have men like this working for them.
IIRC, the Obama Administration had just renewed his security clearance.
True enough. But if you give Trump the benefit of the doubt, how is he suppose to know Manafort and Flynn had issues? He fired Manafort right away once his Ukrainian ties became public. It will be interesting to see how this Turkey thing goes for Flynn. I always thought it was odd that he could run up $1M in legal bills over a few calls to a Russian ambassador.
Not at all. Flynn is being forked by a perversion of justice.
You and me both. My jaw hit the floor when I read that article.
An all DEMOCRAT Grand Jury, mostly black, with have him in PRISON for LIFE!!
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