and in fact right up through election day. today, with the unsealing of this indictment, we learn that flynn's turkish government contact who set up this gig for him, who was allegedly running this whole operation on behalf of the turkish government and arranging to funnel the payments to mike flynn through a non-turkish company so as to hide the origin of the payments, that guy is was charged today and is facing decades in prison, though he has still not appeared in court. he is described as a resident of istanbul. one of the filings that was unsealed today was a warrant for his arrest. but in "the new york times"' reporting in this case today, he is described as whereabouts unknown. the other person was charged today, though, is the vice chairman of the flynn intelligence group, a guy named bijan kian. kian did appear in court today after responding to a summons