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GBizzle

(209 posts)
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 11:04 AM Jun 2017

Exclusive: Special counsel Mueller to probe ex-Trump aide Flynn's Turkey ties

Source: Reuters

Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the Trump election campaign and Russia, is expanding his probe to include a grand jury investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, three sources told Reuters.

The move means Mueller’s politically charged inquiry will now look into Flynn’s paid work as a lobbyist for a Turkish businessman in 2016, in addition to contacts between Russian officials and Flynn and other Trump associates during and after the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Federal prosecutors in Virginia are investigating a deal between Flynn and Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin as part of a grand jury criminal probe, according to a subpoena seen by Reuters.

Alptekin’s company, Netherlands-based Inovo BV, paid Flynn's consultancy $530,000 between September and November to produce a documentary and research on Fethullah Gulen, an exiled Turkish cleric living in the United States. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan blames Gulen for a failed coup last July.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-flynn-turkey-exclusive-idUSKBN18T276

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Exclusive: Special counsel Mueller to probe ex-Trump aide Flynn's Turkey ties (Original Post) GBizzle Jun 2017 OP
This investigation is Mammoth! FarPoint Jun 2017 #1
Turkey ties bora13 Jun 2017 #2
:D You beat me to the punch... C Moon Jun 2017 #7
Need an extra long one for Drumpf Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2017 #8
K&R MelissaB Jun 2017 #3
Global bucolic_frolic Jun 2017 #4
Flynn had to lie Achilleaze Jun 2017 #5
This is the guy he wrote an op ed about saying he should be deported to Turkey knowing they'd kill bettyellen Jun 2017 #6

FarPoint

(12,179 posts)
1. This investigation is Mammoth!
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 11:06 AM
Jun 2017

Do we have the reliable resources to actually investigate all the legs and tentacles of this crime family? I myself am overwhelmed.....

What is most troubling is our republican controlled congress members are complacent...willingly ignoring the true outrage.

bora13

(860 posts)
2. Turkey ties
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 11:18 AM
Jun 2017

come in handy 'round thanksgiving....

I heard some jails call the "plastic wrist braces" Turkey ties as well.

bucolic_frolic

(42,478 posts)
4. Global
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 11:39 AM
Jun 2017

oligarch/financial/billionaire cabal attempts to neuter governments and privatize
everything for themselves

Going to be a long process, and it's been 35 years in the making. Curbing
excesses may be the only viable result.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
6. This is the guy he wrote an op ed about saying he should be deported to Turkey knowing they'd kill
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 12:19 PM
Jun 2017

Him. using his political influence to get someone murdered for a damned paycheck

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