The DOJ rested their case against Flynn’s partner today and if I had to guess the Bush appointed judge is going to grant a defense motion (should the jury convict) for an acquittal notwithstanding the verdict of the jury on the conspiracy count. It is also possible he never lets that count go to the jury. The judge is the first Federal judge who ruled in favor of dt on the Muslim ban so I don’t see him being overly upset about a plot to render the cleric “back to his own country”, Turkey or that they didn't register as representing a foreign government.
Alptekin is the front man for the Turkish government and Courtovich was the last witness the DOJ put on today.
“Courtovich also described a meeting at Flynn’s consulting firm’s offices in Alexandria in early November 2016, during which the Turkish businessman who inked the $600,000 contract with the Flynn firm, Alptekin, seemed deeply unsatisfied with the Flynn group’s work.”
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“In a huff about the work, Alptekin slid a printed PowerPoint presentation across the table, questioned the value of what he’d paid for, and said, “What am I going to tell Ankara,” Courtovich recalled.”
“I almost fell off my chair,” Courtovich testified. “When you sit down with a client and he basically tells you you’ve failed on every single level, you get a little concerned.”
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‘Courtovich also said the exclusive focus on Gulen at the Nov. 2 meeting was a surprise because he thought the project was being funded by businesses concerned about the investment climate. “I went in there still under the impression [we were] promoting private investment in Turkey, then this cat jumped out of the bag,” Courtovich said.’
Prosecutors allege in the case against Rafiekian that the Dutch company Flynn’s firm originally said was the sponsor of the Turkey-related work, Inovo BV, was essentially acting at the direction of the Turkish government’.”
So where was Admiral Woolsey who sat in the meetings with the president of Turkey’s son in NYC? I never understood why Mueller gave Flynn a deal in the first place. Stay tuned.
The basis of this diary is from Politico.