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Mueller Seeks White House Documents on Flynn

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/us/politics/robert-mueller-michael-flynn-turkey.html

Investigators working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently asked the White House for documents related to former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, and have questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid by the Turkish government during the final months of the presidential campaign, according to people close to the investigation.

Though not a formal subpoena, the document request is the first known instance of Mr. Mueller’s team asking the White House to hand over records.

In interviews with potential witnesses in recent weeks, prosecutors and F.B.I. agents have spent hours poring over the details of Mr. Flynn’s business dealings with a Turkish-American businessman who worked last year with Mr. Flynn and his consulting business, the Flynn Intel Group.

The company was paid $530,000 to run a campaign to discredit an opponent of the Turkish government who has been accused of orchestrating last year’s failed coup in the country.

Investigators want to know if the Turkish government was behind those payments — and if the Flynn Intel Group made kickbacks to the businessman, Ekim Alptekin, for helping conceal the source of the money.
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The line of questioning shows that Mr. Mueller’s inquiry has expanded into a full-fledged examination of Mr. Flynn’s financial dealings, beyond the relatively narrow question of whether he failed to register as a foreign agent or lied about his conversations and business arrangements with Russian officials.
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commedieu

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Hahah. So now they can't pretend they haven't been asked for documents.


Love it.


And this is a man highly vetted.
 
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Conciliator

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Flynn was fucked from the jump, since at the first sign of trouble he pretty much put that "I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING, JUST DON'T HURT ME" offer out there. Dude is probably shitting himself right now.
 
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Nairume

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Flynn right now
 
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antonz

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Flynn would be the type they would try and flip. There are enough potentially criminal things he has done that they can hang over him to get him to squeal like a pig.
 
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Shoeless

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Time for the White House to start printing Pardon Vouchers and handing them out to the staff, past employees, family members and friends to be redeemed once, at any time.
 
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tbm24

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I think it's safe to assume Flynn is seeking a reduced sentence as aggressively as possible by flipping on trump and friends.
 
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NihonTiger90

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If the White House has documents proving Flynn got paid and they still hired him, they're in trouble for having hired him.

If they don't, they're in trouble because they didn't go through proper vetting for Flynn that would have turned this up (or are complicit in covering it up).

This really doesn't bode well for them either way.
 
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