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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Michael Flynn business partner charged with acting as unregistered agent
BREAKING: Michael Flynn business partner charged with acting as unregistered agent of of foreign government for trying to prompt extradition of Turkish cleric.
Link to tweet
Michael Flynns business partner charged with illegally lobbying for Turkey
A business partner of Michael Flynn is being charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy for attempting to get Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen extradited from the United States.
Bijan Kian made his first appearance in Alexandria federal court Monday morning.
Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin who paid Kian and Flynn, is charged in the indictment, but remains abroad.
The Turkish government blames Gulen, who is living in exile in Pennsylvania, for instigating a failed coup in 2016.
A business partner of Michael Flynn is being charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy for attempting to get Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen extradited from the United States.
Bijan Kian made his first appearance in Alexandria federal court Monday morning.
Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin who paid Kian and Flynn, is charged in the indictment, but remains abroad.
The Turkish government blames Gulen, who is living in exile in Pennsylvania, for instigating a failed coup in 2016.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynns-business-partner-charged-with-illegally-lobbying-for-turkey/2018/12/17/46fb3762-020a-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.0eecd264cebe
Indictment here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g6Ihim1UCjEX5g_CJpSY2-aJbbg-qPGN/preview
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BREAKING: Michael Flynn business partner charged with acting as unregistered agent (Original Post)
herding cats
Dec 2018
OP
JUST IN: Court documents: Two of Michael Flynn's business associates, Bikan Rafiekian (Bijan Kian)..
demmiblue
Dec 2018
#5
Yes but are these folks still here in the USA? I mean, that might explain the secrecy...
machoneman
Dec 2018
#10
Someone here correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this guy Rafiekian was on Trump's transition team
pecosbob
Dec 2018
#11
wonder if trump meant drain the swamp as putting all his business associates in prison
dembotoz
Dec 2018
#13
Firestorm49
(4,004 posts)1. Good! Frickin good! Toast his ass.
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)16. I doubt a traitor would be in business with a trustworthy American.
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Criminals and traitors associate with their like kind so they won't be narced out to the feds.
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Shell_Seas
(3,319 posts)2. I wonder is this has to do with the secret court thing last Friday.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)3. So many unregistered foreign agents to make America great again
calimary
(80,700 posts)4. I keep thinking about that poem whose lines include "things fall apart..."
...the centre cannot hold...
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats.
demmiblue
(36,751 posts)5. JUST IN: Court documents: Two of Michael Flynn's business associates, Bikan Rafiekian (Bijan Kian)..
JUST IN: Court documents: Two of Michael Flynn's business associates, Bikan Rafiekian (Bijan Kian) and Kamil Alptekin, indicted for alleged conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government and other charges; case tied to efforts to extradite Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Link to tweet
herding cats
(19,549 posts)6. Thanks!
I just added a link to them, too.
Botany
(70,291 posts)7. Another day another witch
dlk
(11,438 posts)8. Lock Him Up, Too!
watoos
(7,142 posts)9. Trump is an unregistered agent of any country that gives him money.
Israel, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Russia.
machoneman
(3,952 posts)10. Yes but are these folks still here in the USA? I mean, that might explain the secrecy...
to avoid their flight out.
pecosbob
(7,511 posts)11. Someone here correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this guy Rafiekian was on Trump's transition team
Edit* Is seems he was deputy lead assigned to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence...
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)15. Wow, office of National Intelligence
So, what state secrets do you think we still have from little Putin?
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)12. Does anyone else think the Mueller is sending a message?
That is Flynn got his deal, then came out and lamely claimed the FBI didn't tell him lying to the FBI was a crime. (Only the best and brightest)
So Team Mueller says, "hold my beer, let's send a message!"
dembotoz
(16,739 posts)13. wonder if trump meant drain the swamp as putting all his business associates in prison
reminds me of the moral of the movie war games
the best way to win is not to play
triron
(21,916 posts)14. Hmmm.