Flynn Intel Group

The Flynn Intel Group is a lobbying group established by Michael Flynn in October 2014.[1] Flynn registered the company from the home of his friend Stanley A. McChrystal, a "fellow general-turned-consultant."[2]

Kamil Ekim Alptekin, a Turkish businessman close to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's leader, is a client of Flynn Intel Group.[3] Inovo, a company owned by Alptekin, paid the Flynn Intel Group $530,000 to investigate Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-resident cleric who is wanted by the Turkish government.[4] The group's failure to register as a foreign agent after accepting this contract was among the activities examined by Robert Mueller's 2017 Special Counsel investigation.[5]

Subsidiaries of the Flynn Intel Group include FIG Cyber Inc and FIG Aviation. They are headed by Timothy Newberry and Mike Coomes.[6][4][7] Other employees included Flynn's son, Michael G. Flynn, who served as his father's chief of staff.[8]

The group's House Identification number is 433680001 and Senate Identification number is 401104161.[9]

References
  1. Baker, Peter; Rosenberg, Matthew (10 March 2017). "Michael Flynn Was Paid to Represent Turkey's Interests During Trump Campaign". The New York Times.
  2. Confessore, Nicholas (18 June 2017). "How Michael Flynn's Disdain for Limits Led to a Legal Quagmire". The New York Times.
  3. Buncombe, Andrew (24 November 2016). "Donald Trump's national security chief 'took money from Putin and Erdogan', says former NSA employee". The Independent.
  4. Gold, Matea (May 4, 2017). "The mystery behind a Flynn associate's quiet work for the Trump campaign". The Washington Post.
  5. Sheth, Sonam. "Mueller is eyeing Flynn's involvement in a film his lobbying firm did not want anyone to know about". Business Insider. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  6. Braun, Stephen; Burns, Robert (February 14, 2017). "Michael Flynn, fired once by a president, now resigns to another". CTV News.
  7. "U.S. Chamber of Commerve".
  8. Lee, Carol E.; Ainsley, Julia; Dilanian, Ken. "Mike Flynn's Son Is Subject of Federal Russia Probe". NBC News. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  9. "Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995".
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