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 nonturkish government so as to hide the origin of the payments, that guy is was charged today and 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. mkian did appear in court today after a summons ordering him to be there. you might have seen a lot of headlines today describing him as a flynn associate or a flynn
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
quote, we are ready to engage on what needs to be done. flynn and his business partner then proposed a detailed plan to their turkish government contact. by the second week in august, august 10th, their contact with ties to the turkish government reported back that they had the green light to go ahead with their plan. on or about august 10th, the turkish government contact sent an e-mail to flynn and his partner saying, quote, i just finished in ankara after several meetings today with turkish minister number 2 and turkish minister number 1. i have a green light to discuss confidentiality, budget, and scope of the contract. and then, sure enough, about three weeks after that, mike flynn gets the contract. quote, under the terms of the contract, company a, which is the flynn intelligence group, was to receive a total of $600,000 broken into three $200,000 payments. among the deliverables that mike flynn was expected to produce in
they checked. quote, following flynn s op-ed, the fara registration unit of the department of justice sent a letter to flynn requesting additional information to determine whether he, the flynn intelligence group, and/or other individuals had an obligation to register as an agent of a foreign government under the foreign agents registration act. and, of course, in quick succession thereafter, mike flynn was named national security adviser. he was sworn in as national security adviser. he then very quickly had to resign as national security adviser. after he had resigned, he retroactively registered as a foreign agent representing the government of turkey. he was then charged with lying to fbi investigators about his contacts with the russian government. as part of the charging documents in that case, he admitted that he also lied to investigators about him being a paid agent for the government of turkey and the fact that he was acting illegally in this country as their unregistered for
the previous night. quote, we are ready to engage on what needs to be done. flynn and his business partner then proposed a detailed plan to their turkish government contact. by the second week in august, august 10th, their contact with ties to the turkish government reported back that they had the green light to go ahead with their plan. the turkish government contact sent an e-mail to flynn and his partner saying, quote, i just finished in ankara after several meetings today with turkish minister number 2 and turkish minister number 1. i have a green light to discuss confidentiality, budget, and scope of the contract. and then sure enough, about three weeks after that, mike flynn gets the contract. quote, under the terms of the contract, company a, which is the flynn intelligence group, was to receive a total of $600,000 broken into three $200,000 payments. among the deliverables that mike flynn was expected to produce in exchange for this money, quote, the contract noted company a wa