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 Muellers politically charged inquiry will now look into Flynns 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.
Alptekins 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
FarPoint
(12,179 posts)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)come in handy 'round thanksgiving....
I heard some jails call the "plastic wrist braces" Turkey ties as well.
C Moon
(12,180 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(106,789 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,478 posts)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.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)He's a republican. They just don't do truth.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Him. using his political influence to get someone murdered for a damned paycheck