By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A federal investigation is targeting ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn and one of his former business partners over payments they received by three Russian companies and a Netherlands-based company controlled by a Turkish businessman.
The investigation is designed to determine whether the payments from foreign clients to Flynn’s now-inactive Flynn Intel Group violated the law, sources knowledgeable of the investigation told Reuters.
What’s new is the discovery that Flynn’s business partner, Bijan Kian, has become a subject of the widening investigation.
Neither of the men’s attorneys returned calls for comment.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is running the investigation, is part of an FBI probe into Flynn’s consulting firm lobbying on behalf of Turkey, for which it was paid $530,000 by Inovo. Flynn’s firm never properly disclosed the money or relationship.
