Thursday, November 30, 2017

Flynn indictment coming

Or is it?
[P]rosecutors working for Mueller postponed grand jury testimony related to Flynn’s private business dealings.

The reason for the postponement was not immediately clear, but it comes one week after attorneys for Flynn alerted Trump’s legal team that they could no longer share information about the case.

  AP
Postponed or cancelled outright?
The details of Kushner’s questioning and the postponement of the grand jury testimony were confirmed by people familiar with Mueller’s investigation. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing investigation.
I'm guessing Kushner or Flynn's people. Or maybe court people. Mueller's are tight-lipped, as they should be. It could be they've got a line on more information suddenly. Or, it could be somebody had a scheduling conflict. Or it could be something else. If it's dropped altogether - and I have no reason to believe it has - I suppose that would be a clear indication Flynn made some serious deals, and the only serious deals I can think of would involve giving over information on Trump and/or Kushner. It has come out in this postponement that Mueller's team had questioned Kushner before Flynn's team quit sharing information with Trump's. For whatever that information is worth.
An October 2016 meeting that was expected to be the subject of the grand jury testimony has been described as a bait-and-switch carried out on behalf of Flynn’s firm.

[...]

As the AP reported in March , Flynn’s business partner, Bijan Kian , invited a representative of the House Homeland Security committee to Flynn Intel’s offices in Alexandria, Virginia, to discuss secure communications products. But after discussing the products, the session quickly turned into a lobbying pitch that mirrored Turkish government talking points [about Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whose kidnapping and rendering is said to have been conspired including Flynn].
What an incredible web of sleazery and criminality Mueller's team has to unravel.

UPDATE:

Thread

Also,
Attorney and professor Seth Abramson has a thread on what he thinks Kushner's recent appearance before Mueller's team means.  Check it out.

UPDATE 12/1:

Indicted.

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