July 23, 2019
THE TIGHTENING NOOSE:
Trump transition adviser convicted on foreign-agent charges (JOSH GERSTEIN, 07/23/2019, Politico)
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn, on a pair of foreign-agent felony charges stemming from work the two men did for Turkish interests during the final months of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016.The verdicts, returned by jurors in Alexandria, Va., after a weeklong trial and only about four hours of deliberation, amount to a belated courtroom victory for special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated the $600,000 lobbying and public relations contract at the heart of the case and then handed the matter off to other federal prosecutors after Flynn's guilty plea to a false-statement charge in 2017.
It's a RICO case.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 23, 2019 6:41 PM