- A federal judge has overturned a jury verdict convicting a onetime business partner of former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn of illegally lobbying for Turkey.
“The verdict was against the heavy weight of the evidence,” the judge wrote in a 39-page decision on Tuesday. “Bijan and his family are relieved and looking forward to getting on with their lives,” his lawyer Mark MacDougall said. “Justice has been done.” The investigation grew out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and was focused on lobbying work for Ukraine directed by Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman.
Rafiekian was accused of conspiring with Turkish-Dutch businessman Ekim Alptekin to lobby on Turkey’s behalf to persuade the U.S. government to extradite dissident cleric Fethullah Gulen.
So the judges agree the prosecutors over stepped and may have violated many convents. Will Flynn be next to be vindicated from the oversteps.
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