Lawyers for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn told President Donald Trump’s transition team that Flynn might need to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, according to a White House official and a person with direct knowledge of the discussions.
A White House official said Flynn’s personal lawyer contacted Trump transition attorneys before the inauguration about the possible filing as he was being considered for appointment as Trump’s national security adviser. The official said the transition team was not made aware of the filing’s details and Flynn’s related business dealings, and advised Flynn’s lawyer that it was a personal matter they would need to handle. The official was not authorized to discuss private conversations and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Among those told of Flynn’s lobbying work that may have benefited the government of Turkey was Don McGahn, Trump’s campaign lawyer who served in the transition and later became White House counsel, said the person, who was not authorized to describe confidential conversations and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The White House has been unclear about when it was told of Flynn’s lobbying.
The new details follow remarks Thursday by Vice President Mike Pence, who said he was unaware of Flynn’s foreign agent work until this week. Asked whether the president knew about Flynn’s work when he was appointed, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Thursday that he did not believe “that was known.”
The disclosure of the contacts between Flynn’s team and the transition does not directly contradict the remarks from Pence and Spicer, but it shows that some key Trump administration officials were aware prior to Flynn’s appointment that it was likely he would be registering as a foreign agent.
The person with knowledge of the discussions said that the White House counsel’s office was told after the inauguration that Flynn was moving forward with the filing. The White House official said the White House counsel’s office has no recollection of a second discussion with Flynn’s lawyers.
Flynn and his firm, Flynn Intel Group Inc., filed paperwork this week with the Justice Department formally identifying him as a foreign agent and acknowledging that his work for a company owned by a Turkish businessman “could be construed to have principally benefited the Republic of Turkey.”
Flynn’s company was paid $530,000 for work for a Turkish company, according to the filings.
Trump asked Flynn to step down last month for misleading Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak.
Hey Ms. Met! remember I did drop the hint about turkey in november right after dump and accomplices stole the election? ….. well well ……. interestingly there is more to this new turkey scandal thats about to explode, not only how deep flynn is involved but also others, but knowing how shady and crooked this administration is, they might just let flynn take the rap for everything, but there is a little muslim man somewhere in Pennsylvania that might complicate everything, I’m not gonna elaborate too much, but that little man might cause a very serious diplomatic spat between the US and other nations that are considered US allies including turkey, as absurd as it sounds, even indirectly russia, and this little man is going to put dump in a very very complicated spot months ahead or down the stretch, I had also drop a hint in december about a scandal thats going to emerge out of asia regarding shady dealings connected to dump and his crooked empire, and we’re not talking about china, you run a little story on it about a week or so ago but you only skim over it, you might have underestimate the magnitude of that one since the russian scandal overshadow everything else right now.
It look like Flynn nah go down by himself either..Every week a something new
have you also noticed he is purging the justice department of top US attorneys? ….. on short notices? …… yep …..he knows whats coming so the intention is to fill the swamp with his crocodiles, the aim is, in collusion with that weasel jeff sessions, DECONSTRUCT & WEAKEN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AS INVESTIGATIONS ARISES.
:tkp
Him nah go get whey doe cause more leak pan top a leak. The biggest thing mi see really a how wikileaks a work wid him fi try bring down the cia
The Republican party is the worst party in history. They are BEYOND corrupt
Maybe in their recent dispensation they’re the worst but I would be remiss if I didn’t highlight the often unknown fact….the Republicans freed the slaves#facts
It’s puzzling that black people support the democratic party when if left to them black people would still be slaves.
I’m not talking the civil war over slaves by then the tables had turned n the democrats were seen as the lesser of two evils. I’m talking about the fact that abe Lincoln freed the slaves n is unanimously Usa’s greatest president. ..obama won’t come anywhere close to his legacy when all is said and done (racism perhaps).
they can NEVER bring down the cia its the other way around, that same republican party and those rats & weasels might have to turn against him by next year to save their asses, their constituencies are starting to figure them out at a very rapid rate, by next year this time it will be every man for himself when that heat turn up on both him and them.
….. just wait until the money laundering part burst out, can’t wait for the dossier to implicate that rat gullianni’s law firm with some of his shady middle eastern clients.
Yes di money laundering more dan russia o
Agreed the dossier was more than correct but the truth bout trump must come out cause Flynn nah go prison just so but trump have crooked deals all over the place but I don’t no a wah kind of evidence putin has and dangling over him orange head him love him so but them republicans are going to pay some deep consequence soon
@Terry, the alpha bank in russia that is caught up in the scandal didn’t just became dump’s creditor by dump’s choice, he was COERCED and blackmailed into being that bank’s infamous client because of what he attempted to do, its a long story but I’ll try to simply it the best i can for you, many people might know//many people might not that the UNOFFICIAL wealthiest individual in the world is vladimir putun, the former KGB head and current president of russia, but putun’s wealth is off the record thats the reason it is UNOFFICIAL, putun didn’t aquire/accumulate his vast wealth through the traditional process of wealth creation, putun’s wealth was created through “back door” “black market” mafia style, patronage, nepotism and such, most of those russian ogliarchs gain their wealth as such, by the aquisition f state’s property by the lowest bidder which is usually close friend, family member, associate etc, in that fashion since its mafiaism and putun is the head mafia all his cronies, his associates or whoever amass wealth through him have to pay him EXTORTION or APPRECIATION MONEY, thats how putun amass his wealth.
ctd …… a lot of the ogliarchs who was paying extortion and “appreciation money” to putun through front systems in russia disguise as taxes and such was becoming uneasy with putun, this was also mirroring dump’s financial problems in america and elsewhere with his businesses and he was seeking investors to bail him out, he had a shrewed idea which later backfired on him and got him entangled in this never ending mess, dump knew some of those russian ogliarchs were becoming uneasy with putun and dump went behind putun’s back to lure them to launder some of their money in his business as a way to 1.divest some of their wealth from russia away from putun and 2.revive him(dump) and put him back on his feet, he forgot that putun was a KGB man, putun found out that dump was trying to help people in russia go around his system and undermine him, putun counter dump by luring him in sting operations to russia on escapades with prostitutes and other things that would compromise and tarnish his image if make known, thats where they trapped him(dump) and through blackmail coerce him into being probably the number one client of alpha mafia bank among other things being their servant by all means including putting him in the white house to serve them, so there you have it, IT ALL STARTED WHERE DUMP PUT HIS NOSE WHERE IT DIDN’T BELONG,TRY TO PULL ONE, ENDED UP GETTING ONE PULLED ON HIM, AND NOW HE IS LIKE THE VERY SAME PROSTITUTES HE SEND TO PEE ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S BED, just like the law enforcement official said he will rot in jail if or when those money laundering investigations come to fruitation.