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Former Michael Flynn Business Associates Indicted in Turkey Lobbying Case
NY Times ^
| Dec. 17, 2018
| Adam Goldman and Mark Mazzetti
Posted on 12/17/2018 8:07:13 AM PST by conservative98
WASHINGTON Two former business associates of Michael T. Flynn, President Trumps first national security adviser, have been indicted as part of a federal investigation into Turkeys 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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201812; alptekin; bijankian; comey; comeytestimony; ekimalptekin; erdogan; fethullahgulen; flynn; flynnturkey; inovo; inovobv; iran; jamescomey; kurdistan; lisapage; loganact; mikeflynn; mueller; muellercorrupt; muellerinvestigation; neverendingprobe; peterstrzok; poconos; poconoscell; receptayyiperdogan; robertmueller; turkey; witchhunt
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To: conservative98
Merry Christmas
To: conservative98
To: conservative98
Methinks this could be a death rattle before the Flynn sentencing tomorrow. I hope so.
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:12:13 AM PST
by
gwjack
(May God give America His richest blessings.)
To: conservative98
Where’s Tony Podesta’s indictment?
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:13:21 AM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: conservative98
To: conservative98
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.
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:14:09 AM PST
by
chris37
To: conservative98
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 Heres 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 ...
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:14:39 AM PST
by
piasa
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To: conservative98
Flynn’s business associates? So what?
Is his meter-reader next?
Good heavens!
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:14:48 AM PST
by
Migraine
To: gwjack
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.
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:14:52 AM PST
by
DarthVader
(Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
To: conservative98
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!
To: Captain Compassion
Podesta was working for Gulen...
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:15:15 AM PST
by
piasa
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To: conservative98
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?
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:15:23 AM PST
by
Reno89519
(No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
To: conservative98
Associates or former associates?
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:15:40 AM PST
by
oldbrowser
(The government did not create the people. The people created the government.)
To: conservative98
"The indictment is further evidence of a broad crackdown on ...
ANYTHING connected to President Trump and away from the clintons et al.
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:19:05 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true; I have no proof .... but they're true.)
To: conservative98
Looking for more dirt on Flynn?
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:20:36 AM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: Migraine
The Washington Post will now publish a story that Trump was behind the Turkey coup attempt to protect his real estate assets.
To: DarthVader
So now the libs have their own Joe McCarthy
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:23:14 AM PST
by
lilypad
To: Gahanna Bob
Well... sure they will, he supposedly is building luxury pads in Istanbul.
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:23:26 AM PST
by
piasa
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12/17/2018 8:24:08 AM PST
by
piasa
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