Former Michael Flynn Business Associates Indicted in Turkey Lobbying Case

NY Times ^ | Dec. 17, 2018 | Adam Goldman and Mark Mazzetti

[conservative98]

WASHINGTON — Two former business associates of Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, have been indicted as part of a federal investigation into Turkey’s secret 2016 lobbying campaign to pressure the United States to expel a rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Charges against the two former associates, Bijan Kian and Ekim Alptekin, were unsealed on Monday in an Alexandria, Va., courtroom. The two men were charged with a conspiracy to violate federal lobbying rules, and Mr. Alptekin also was charged with making false statements to F.B.I. investigators.

The indictment is further evidence of a broad crackdown on unregistered foreign lobbying growing from the inquiry by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel who has investigated foreign flows of money from Ukraine, Turkey and other countries designed to manipulate decision-making in Washington. Mr. Mueller referred the Turkey case to prosecutors in Northern Virginia earlier this year.

[conservative98]

Merry Christmas

[Captain Compassion]

No Podesta? Shocking.

[gwjack]

Methinks this could be a death rattle before the Flynn sentencing tomorrow. I hope so.

[mass55th]

Where’s Tony Podesta’s indictment?

[Logical me]

BS

[chris37]

You mean these aren’t among all those sealed indictments of deep staters by former master AG Jeff something?

Gee, I wonder when all that “plan” stuff is supposed to happen.

[piasa]

MAY 2016 : (THE PODESTA GOUP [See DEMOCRATS, CLINTONS] REGISTERS AS A LOBBYIST FOR THE "ALLIANCE FOR SHARED VALUES," A GROUP WHICH SUPPORTS IMAM FETHULLAH GULEN [See POCONOS CELL) ---- How the Clintons and the Rest of Washington Are Getting Rich From the Turkey Coup Heatstreet ^ | July 18, 2016 | Ira Stoll Posted on ‎7‎/‎18‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎05‎:‎47‎ ‎PM by detective Here’s one outcome of the Turkish coup attempt that you can bet on: Washington lobbyists will be getting rich off it. The Podesta Group, a firm with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, registered in May to lobby for the “Alliance for Shared Values.” That comically named organization supports Fethullah Gulen, the Pennsylvania-based imam that the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, blames, rightly or wrongly, for the coup. (Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...

[Migraine]

Flynn’s business associates? So what?
Is his meter-reader next?
Good heavens!

[DarthVader]

I agree an act of desperation. Mulehead always pulls this when he is in trouble. I am not convinced about anything different about this scumbag traitor Mueller.

[saywhatagain]

Actually 2

Two Michael Flynn Associates Indicted in Virginia Federal Court

Two associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn were charged with making false statements, acting in the U.S. as agents of a foreign government and conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government over their attempts to influence U.S. politicians about a Turkish citizen whose extradition was sought by the government of President Tayyip Erdogan.

Bijan Rafiekian, also known as Bijan Kian, and Kamil Ekim Alptekin were indicted by a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia. The indictment was unsealed Monday.

If not mistaken . . . . someone was spreading the word about looking for "sealed indictments" to come. Argh!

[piasa]

Podesta was working for Gulen...

[Reno89519]

Working for Turkey? Traitors. No sympathy. And, yes, where are the indictments for Podesta and others? Did they and do they still get a Get Out Of Jail Free card?

[oldbrowser]

Associates or former associates?

[knarf]

"The indictment is further evidence of a broad crackdown on ...
ANYTHING connected to President Trump and away from the clintons et al.

[Huskrrrr]

Looking for more dirt on Flynn?

[Gahanna Bob]

The Washington Post will now publish a story that Trump was behind the Turkey coup attempt to protect his real estate assets.

[lilypad]

So now the libs have their own Joe McCarthy

[piasa]

Well... sure they will, he supposedly is building luxury pads in Istanbul.

[piasa]

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