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

Kian was initially convicted in a 2019 jury trial. But Judge Anthony Trenga, who heard the case, later tossed out the conviction and ordered a not guilty verdict, saying there was no substantial evidence that he agreed to operate at the Turkish government’s direction or that Alptekin was an intermediary for Turkey.

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. Prosecutors had initially seemed prepared to pursue a new trial, which was scheduled to begin in October. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia declined to comment on why prosecutors decided to drop the case.

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