security adviser michael flynn not among the first three publicly announced people to be indicted by special prosecutor robert mueller, one of whom pleaded guilty because michael flynn obviously broke the law. there's absolutely no doubt about that. he did not register as a foreign agent working on behalf of the turkish government in the trump campaign in 2016 and that is a felony. punishment can include prison time. the government doesn't you believely prosecute these cases when it seems to have just been an oversight. government can be kind of understanding about that. but when prosecutors are playing tough as robert mueller is, this is the kind of thing that can and will get you indicted as it did for paul manafort and his junior partner richard gates. count ten of the indictment of paul manafort and richard gates says the defendants knowingly and willfully without registering with the attorney general as required by law, acted as agents of a foreign