named bijan kian, was also indicted, also charged in his case with acting as an agent of a foreign government. this is sort of more serious version of the charge that a number of mueller targets have faced, which is failing to register as a foreign agent. what bijan kian was charged with in mid-december is sort of the more serious version of that crime. according to his lawyers, it is something that has only been charged in the united states a handful of times since the law was created. but bijan kian plead not guilty. he is not pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate like most of the other people who were charged in the mueller investigation thus far. kian has plead not guilty. he wants to go to trial. today there was a hearing in his case to among other things set a trial date. kian s lawyers plead with the judge hearing that case in the eastern district of virginia that they needed quite a lot more time to prepare their defense before they would feel comfortable proceeding with a
for arguing that today was that there is a ton of evidence to go through in the government s case, what they described of terabytes of data on multiple hard drives that they had received from the prosecution outlining their case against bijan kian. but one of kian s lawyers also told the judge today there was a more personal reason they wanted to delay. they wanted to delay specifically until this fall. and we got a transcript of that hearing today in which we can see bijan kian s lawyer telling the judge today, quote, i know it is not of utmost concern to the court, your honor, but our client s daughter s wedding is the first week of august. so we would like to make sure that we don t jam him up in that regard as well. his lawyer saying that, please, can we put the trial off to the fall. there is so much to do. there is so much evidence to get through, but also his daughter s wedding is the first week of august. couldn t we do it after that? the judge responded to that
turkish clerk living in the united states. kian and flynn held weekly calls with their occturkish contact. flynn, who is not charged with illegally lobbying in this new indictment, even published an op-ed on election day 2016 attacking gulen as an extremist without disclosing his own business ties. fox news analyst andrew napolitano is laying out quite a scenario, suggesting that the president, who s been identified in open court as individual 1 could already be indicted for directing cohen to break election law by paying off two women to keep his alleged affairs secret. there s ample evidence. this doesn t require too much analysis to indict the president. the question is do they want to do it.
to kislyak, that he then requested russia not escalate in response to the sanctions when talking to kislyak and that after he reported back the s substance of the call to officials at mar-a-lago. two of michael flynn s business soassociated have been charged. a cofounder of the flynn intel group and a turkish national were charged monday with conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government shutdown. kian also served on president trump s transition team in the division related to the office of the director of national intelligence. federal prosecutors said the scheme tasrgeted the removal ofa
he also had a business partner in that firm. this man, his name is bijan kian. he was a partner in flynn intel. he appears to have been intensely involved in the day-to-day work of the flynn intel group, including some of the controversial work that flynn did secretly on behalf of the government of turkey while he was also working on the trump campaign without registering as a foreign agent. both flynn and his partner, kian, retroactively registered as foreign agents in march. after flynn got fired from the white house. well, now tonight, nbc news reports that, quote, federal investigators are zeroing in on bijan kian. a former business associate of michael flynn has become a subject of special counsel robert miler s investigation. federal investigators have questioned multiple witnesses about his lobbying work on behalf of turkey.