Published on July 13th, 2019 📆 | 7152 Views ⚑
0Michael Flynn: US govt thinks ex-NSA was doing more for Turkey than previously known
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Flynn has previously only admitted publicly to filing false foreign lobbying disclosure documents regarding work for Turkey done by his lobbying group the Flynn Intel Group in 2016.
Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell responded to the new accusation Friday, saying, "We have no idea what the government is talking about. It smacks of desperation."
Powell continued, "Whatever it is, it cannot be new information to the prosecution, and it was only a few months ago prosecutors recommended probation for him. As we have said in our recent filings, this can only be retalition for his refusal to answer a question the way they wanted."
Allegedly, Flynn's lobbying group and Kian had contracted with Alptekim, a Dutch-Turkish citizen who's been criminally charged in the US but lives in Turkey, in 2016 to smear Gulen while he lived in the US. The Turkish government has wanted to extradite Gulen to Turkey, and Flynn admitted to publishing an op-ed in The Hill newspaper on Election Day 2016 about Gulen and the US-Turkish relationship that was supervised by Turkish officials. Flynn then became Trump's first national security adviser and a top adviser during the presidential transition.
This comes as Flynn's cooperation deal with prosecutors is in jeopardy, after they accused him of trying to change his story from what he pleaded to, and dropped him as a government witness at the Kian trial.
Flynn has not yet been sentenced for his crime, but got one of the most lenient reviews among all cooperators in the Mueller investigation so far. He had helped for almost two years with both the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the President's attempts to obstruct justice, as well as the investigation into lobbying for Turkey.
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