Mike Flynn under Special Counsel Investigation for Cleric Deal

The Story:

Flynn is surrounded by allegations around his financial ties to Russia and Turkey.
He is currently the center of criminal, military and congressional investigations that seek to unearth a possible connection between that and his decisions while he was the president’s adviser.

NBC News reported that Flynn is under investigation for involvement in the return of an alleged political enemy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Turkey.
President Erdoğan has been pressuring the United States to extradite the person in question, a cleric.
The focus of Mueller’s investigation is to examine whether a discussion at 21 Club in New York leading to a deal to transport the cleric to Turkey would have resulted in Flynn receiving millions of dollars in secret payments, and whether Flynn was, in fact, part of that discussion.
Flynn was allegedly offered upwards of $15 million to close the deal successfully.
Flynn also allegedly discussed helping to free Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who currently faces federal charges for his assistance to Iran in skirting United States sanctions. Zarrab is currently being held in a U.S. facility.
Special counsel Mueller’s ability to gather enough evidence to make the charges stick could lead to Flynn making a plea bargain in exchange for cooperation on the Russia-related investigations.
The precedent for that would be George Papadopolous’s plea deal, which significantly shifted the legal landscape on the Trump Russian scandal.