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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 [View all]

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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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
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