Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is reportedly preparing to interview people hired by former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn to work on an unfinished documentary financed by Turkish interests.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Mueller’s team of investigators are looking into Flynn’s work on the film attacking Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the Turkish government has blamed for a failed 2016 coup.
According to the Journal, the film was at the center of Flynn’s work on behalf of Turkish interests while he also served as a top adviser to President Trump’s 2016 election campaign.
Mueller is also investigating Flynn his son’s involvement in an alleged plot to forcibly remove Gulen from his home in Pennsylvania and return him to Turkey. Gulen has denied any involvement in the coup attempt.
One freelance journalist hired to film interviews for the unfinished film project, David Enders, said that Flynn’s consulting group, the Flynn Intel Group, tried to hide its involvement in the documentary. He said Flynn’s business partner, Bijan Kian, told him that they did not want anyone to know that the consulting firm was working on the film.
“He said: ‘We don’t want anyone to know the Flynn Intel Group has anything to do with this,’” Enders told the Journal earlier this year.
The revelation that Mueller’s team is preparing to interview consultants hired for the film came a day after The New York Times reported that Flynn and his lawyers stopped sharing information and cooperating with President Trump’s attorneys — a development that suggests Flynn may be working with Mueller as part of the special counsel investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
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JUST IN: Mueller looking into Flynn's work on documentary attacking Turkish cleric: report https://t.co/QPZY1BCBvk pic.twitter.com/EQ8GH0qDtj
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