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Prosecutors drop charges against Bijan Kian, a onetime business partner of Michael Flynn

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Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against a onetime business partner of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn

FILE - Bijan Kian, whose full name is Bijan Rafiekian, leaves the FBI Washington Field Office, Dec. 17, 2018, in Washington. On Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, federal prosecutors dropped charges against Kian, a onetime business partner of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who had been accused of acting as an unregistered agent of the Turkish government. FALLS CHURCH, Va.

Flynn wrote a November 2016 op-ed piece, shortly before he was named to be then-President-elect Donald Trump's national security adviser, comparing Gulen to former Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Prosecutors said Turkey directed the effort and pointed to a series of irregular payments flowing back and forth between Kian and an alleged Turkish middleman, businessman Kamal Alptekin.

to Trenga to reinstate the conviction. The appeals court left only a narrow path for Trenga to order a new trial if he could outline in detail why the evidence failed to support a conviction.

 

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