Mike Flynn has been cited for $450,000 in unlawful international funds from Turkey and Russia.
The Backstory On Mike Flynn
From Politico on Could 8, 2017:
Former President Barack Obama warned then-President-elect Donald Trump about Michael Flynn throughout their Oval Workplace assembly two days after the election, present and former administration officers confirmed.
The Obama administration fired Flynn from his job as head of the Protection Intelligence Company (!) and although the Politico article solely cites Flynn’s “problematic habits” and erratic concepts, one can now look again and see that Obama certainly knew that the army’s high spy was taking funds from two rival nations, Russia and Turkey, and would proceed to take action if Trump employed Flynn.
The Pentagon Cites Flynn For Taking Unlawful International Funds
Immediately, the Pentagon introduced that it’s citing Flynn for accepting $450,000 in unreported funds and desires that cash again. It’s beautiful that Flynn has prevented legal prices. From the Washington Post:
Michael Flynn, the retired Military common and onetime adviser to President Donald Trump, was cited by the Protection Division inspector common for failing to reveal profitable talking engagements and different enterprise preparations with international entities, prompting the U.S. authorities to pursue tens of hundreds of {dollars} in penalties towards him, in response to paperwork.
Investigators decided that Flynn obtained almost $450,000 from Turkish and Russian pursuits in 2015, together with for an look in Moscow alongside President Vladimir Putin, however discovered no information that he had sought authorities approval beforehand. Their findings are detailed in a January 2021 memo to the Military launched via the Freedom of Info Act on Thursday.
That’s no two-bit spy, a half-million-dollar cost (rounding up) between two nations with corrupt leaders who sometimes cooperated? It is extremely exhausting to wrap one’s head round how an individual inside the DoD simply exhibits up at Putin’s facet at a dinner with out something filed, wherever. His contempt for Obama will need to have been a close to illness as a result of it definitely overrode any love for his nation. This was 2015, Putin had already invaded the Crimea, been kicked out of what was the G-8, and sanctioned by the Western world. Any army officer would certainly need presidential approval, one might by no means get the video again
Obama wouldn’t have simply instructed Trump, “Don’t rent him.” Obama would’ve offered a minimum of a partial rationalization, funds from Russian and Turkish sources. Attention-grabbing that, not solely did Trump rent Flynn, however made Flynn the American Nationwide Safety Advisor. One might speculate for days on Trump’s motives, and recall Trump telling Comey to go straightforward on Flynn, who was such a superb man.
Regardless, it’s also fascinating that it took the Protection Division till 2022, beneath the Biden administration, to quote Flynn and launch the jaw-dropping determine. It’s beautiful that in any case this time, Flynn hasn’t been court-martialed and stripped of his retirement package deal, if not jailed.
Maybe this marks the start of that wanted effort.
Jason Miciak believes a day with out studying is a day not lived. He’s a political author, options author, writer, and lawyer. He’s a Canadian-born twin citizen who spent his teen and faculty years within the Pacific Northwest and has since lived in seven states. He now enjoys life as a single dad of a younger woman, writing from the seashores of the Gulf Coast. He loves crafting his flower pots, cooking, whereas additionally learning scientific philosophy, faith, and non-math ideas behind quantum mechanics and cosmology. Please be at liberty to contact for talking engagements or any issues.
