Michael Flynn: foreign lobbyist for Turkey

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The Mueller investigation discovered that retired Gen. Michael Flynn worked for the government of Turkey during 2016 without registering with the U.S. government as a foreign agent. In March 2017 he eventually did file his Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) statement, but he omitted information about the true nature of the work, for which the Flynn Intel Group was paid more than $500K.




For example,  Flynn's firm was hired to influence

• American opinion about who orchestrated the recent attempted-coup against Erdogan
• efforts to get cleric Fethullah Gulen, a legal resident of the U.S. whom Erdogan accused,  extradited to Turkey

FLYNN'S SUPPLEMENTAL FARA STATEMENT, MARCH 2017

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In Dec 2017 Mr. Flynn admitted to doing the above, in addition to lying to the FBI while serving as Trump's transition team and as national security adviser about the content of his telephone conversations/negotiations with Russian officials about sanctions recently imposed by the U.S.
SIGNED STATEMENT OF OFFENSE

  
In 2020 the DOJ (under AG William Barr) surprisingly moved to drop the charges against Flynn for lying to the FBI, though Flynn had already pled guilty. Consequently the lead prosecutor, Brandon Van Grack, resigned in protest. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan does not want to drop the case without examining whether doing so is in the public interest. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will review the judges request.

 
Update 10/7/2020:
Attorneys for both Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok filed letters accusing the government of recently  altering evidence provided to Flynn's defense team for their Sept. 24 filing to dismiss Flynn's case:

• misdating a page of Peter Strzok's notes to imply that Joe Biden initiated discussion of the Logan Act, even though other disclosed documents reveal that idea had been discussed previously at the FBI.
• heavily redacting and misdating a page of Andrew McCabe's notes

Now the Justice Department has admitted that it "inadvertently" altered evidence provided to Flynn's defense by adding sticky notes to pages of FBI notes before scanning them.
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE ARTICLE ABOUT ALTERED NOTES
 
Update 11/26/2020: Pardoned by Donald Trump
Update 01/05/2021: Spoke at the pro-Trump rally in Washington D.C., on the eve of the capitol insurrection.
Update 01/27/2021: The Defense Department inspector general's office closed their investigation against LTG Flynn and forwarded several administrative matters to the Acting Secretary of the Army for review and appropriate action.