son michael flynn jr., who like his father is under scrutiny by the security council robert mueller. flynn s concern, as you mentioned, anderson, could be a factor into decision on how to respond to mueller s ongoing investigation, which is both into russian meddling in the 2016 campaign as well as the business dealings of key trump campaign advisers. i m told as well that flynn s wife laurie shares his concerns about their son s possible legal exposure. what are you learning about the legal issues that both he and his son could be facing? so this is revealing. i ve spoken with two witnesses interviewed by special counsel investigators and they tell me the questions regarding flynn focus on his and his son s business dealings, including specifically their firm s reporting of income from work overseas. something known as the foreign agents registration act. it requires those acting as agents for foreign entities, either countries or companies, to publicly disclose their relationship
tactic. it often arises in the context of spouses. you often have tax investigations where a husband and wife, for example, both signed a tax return. both are liable for criminal violations if the tax return is intentionally false. it often works out that the husband who was often the lead financial member of the family takes a plea or cooperates in some way to avoid having a his wife prosecuted as well. here you have a father and son. it is well within a prosecutor s discretion to say to a father, to michael flynn senior, look, we will not prosecute your son if you cooperate, take a plea or whatever. it s definitely hard ball, but it s done with some regularity. but the point we need to make here, of course, is that we have not established that either flynn has committed any crime. so maybe nobody will be cooperating or pleading guilty to anything.
are speaking to multiple witnesses in coming days to gain more information surrounding flynn s lobbying work including whether he laundered money or lied to federal agents about his overseas contacts according to three sources familiar with the investigation. mueller s team is also examining whether flynn attempted to orchestrate the removal of a chief rival of turkish president erdogan from the u.s. to turkey in exchange for millions of dollars. nbc news reported two months ago that michael flynn s son michael g. flynn who is irritatingly enough not a junior, michael g. flynn, he is also subject to robert mueller s investigation. quote, the inquiry into the younger flynn is focused at least in part on his work with his father s lobbying firm, flynn intel group. both traveled to russia in december 2015 when general flynn
erdogan from the u.s. to turkey in exchange for millions of dollars. nbc news reported two months ago that michael flynn s son michael g. flynn who is irritatingly enough not a junior, michael g. flynn, he is also subject to robert mueller s investigation. quote, the inquiry into the younger flynn is focused at least in part on his work with his father s lobbying firm, flynn intel group. both traveled to russia in december 2015 when general flynn gave a paid speech to the propaganda network and had din we are vladimir putin. three sources familiar with the investigation tell nbc news mueller s applying renewed pressure on flynn following his indictment of trump campaign chairman paul manafort in june. former fbi director james comey testified under oath that president trump directed him to drop what was then the fbi s investigation into michael flynn.
under the microscope from robert mueller, that mueller has enough to indict both flynn and his son and colleague michael g. flynn, and this involves turkey and flynn s unreported representation of turkey, correct? reporter: right, andrea. what we re reporting is actually slightly different. we re saying mueller has enough evidence to bring charges in the flynn case. we re not trying to be cute there. obviously both these men are in serious legal jeopardy. charges are possible against both the father and the son. it s also possible they re negotiating a cooperation agreement and that s why we haven t seen charges yet. but you re right, what s also new here is that the fbi and mueller are looking into flynn s lobbying on behalf of the government of turkey and what he did in the white house as national security adviser to potentially facilitate the extradition of that turkish