Justice Department drops case against Michael Flynn’s business partner

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A jury convicted Bijan Rafiekian of illegal lobbying, but the verdict was overturned by a judge who said the evidence was too thin.

“The strongest inference to be drawn from the evidence as a whole is that to the extent Turkey had recruited anyone as its agent, it was not Rafiekian, but Flynn because of his stature and his connections to then Presidential candidate Donald Trump,” Trenga wrote in abusinessman was a genuine client of the firm, and that he was following legal advice in not registering as a foreign agent.

odd payments from Flynn’s firm to the businessman, a meeting with Turkish officials in New York, and initial discussion of getting Turkish government backing.

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