Background THREAD on Mike Flynn's now indicted business partners Bijan Kian & Ekim Alptekin [who's on the same think tank as Professor Mifsud ], charged with acting as foreign agents and conspiracy for attempting to 'extradite' Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen from the US.
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George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn’s now-indicted business partner Ekim Alptekin are both tied to Israeli gas dealings and attended the same energy conferences in Tel Aviv in 2016.
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Mike Flynn’s now-indicted business partner Ekim Alptekin and George Papadopoulos' Professor Mifsud are members of the same think tank [ECFR].
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Mike Flynn’s now-indicted business partner Ekim Alptekin in 2008 had a business deal funded by Russia's VEB bank [whose CEO secretly met with Jared Kushner in DEC 2013]. PUTIN was personally involved in approving VEB's loan to Alptekin.
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Flynn business partner Ekim Alptekin works closely with Dmitri “David” Zaikin, a Soviet-born former Russian energy exec who has had business dealings with the Kremlin AND is linked to former Trump executive & 'ex'-Russian spy, Elena Baronoff.
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Recall, Bijan Kian, Flynn's now-indicted business partner charged with acting as a Turkish agent, was on Trump's transition team – because acting as an agent for a foreign government was a feature not a bug for Trump campaign/transition positions.
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Mike Flynn’s now-indicted business partner Ekim Alptekin and George Papadopoulos' Professor Mifsud [who has high level connections to the Russian government and offered the Trump campaign “dirt” on Clinton] are members of the same think tank, ECFR.
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<broken thread> THREAD continues here:
Judge Sullivan: So Michael Flynn could’ve also been charged in that indictment unsealed in VA yesterday [acting as a foreign agent & conspiracy to 'extradite' Fethullah Gulen]...and exposure to Flynn would've been significant, right?
US Govt: Yes.
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US Govt: Yes.
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