Legal defense fund set up for Michael Flynn
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 09/18/2017 08:32 AM EDT
The family of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has set up a legal defense fund for him, soliciting donations to ease the tremendous financial burden from the ongoing investigations into his actions and the 2016 presidential campaign.
The enormous expense of attorneys' fees and other related expenses far exceed their ability to pay, Flynns brother and sister said in a statement emailed to reporters early Monday. To help ensure that he can defend himself, we have set up a legal defense fund, and we are asking Mike's supporters, veterans, and all people of goodwill to contribute whatever amount they can to this fund.
The fund will not accept donations from foreign governments, nor will it accept money from the Trump campaign or the Trump Organization.
Flynn, a retired general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was among President Donald Trumps most vocal supporters during the campaign and was named national security adviser ahead of last Januarys inauguration. But Flynn became increasingly wrapped up in the multiple ongoing investigations into Russian interference in last years election and ultimately resigned just weeks after Trumps inauguration amid media reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the nature of conversations he had had with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
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SharonClark
(10,014 posts)If they have any integrity, people in the last 2 groups should run the other way.
TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)How much does he get as a pension? Did he spend all the money he got from the Ukraine and other nations as a lobbyist?Let him ask his buddies, Pence and Bannon for money.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)....you gonna get fleas real bad. Expect a big vet bill.
What's this shit about people of good will??
DURHAM D
(32,606 posts)FakeNoose
(32,579 posts)I'd never donate to Flynn's defense fund, and I'd find it hard to believe that any other DUers would either.
"LOCK HIM UP!"
greatauntoftriplets
(175,729 posts)I'll be happy to watch everyone in this maladministration suffer financially for enabling this monster. Anyway, they have loads more money than I do.
janterry
(4,429 posts)(purportedly to put pressure back on Mike Flynn)
someone creates a legal defense fund.
I'm sure it would have happened anyway...............but, huh. Someone is trying to take the pressure off of him
pecosbob
(7,533 posts)or maybe the FSB has some cash stashed away in a slush fund. Perhaps once he's jailed his family can get him exchanged for Edward Snowden, and he can live out his golden years in Mother Russia.