Michael Flynn Bio, Wife, Siblings, Net Worth, Author and Attorney

Michael Flynn Biography

Michael Flynn (Full name: Michael Thomas Flynn) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General and convicted felon and he was, briefly, National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump.

Flynn’s military career included a key role in shaping U.S. counterterrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he was given numerous combat arms, conventional, and special operations senior intelligence assignments.

He served as the 18th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, serving from July 2012 until his forced retirement from the military in August 2014. After leaving the military, he established Flynn Intel Group, which provided intelligence services for businesses and governments, including ones in Turkey. He became a senior advisor to Trump during his presidential campaign and served as the National Security Advisor from January 23 to February 13. 2017.

He resigned after information surfaced that he had misled the FBI and Vice President Mike Pence about the nature and content of his communications with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. Flynn’s tenure of just 24 days is the shortest in the office’s history.

On April 27. 2017, the Pentagon inspector general announced an investigation into whether Flynn had accepted money from foreign governments without the required approval. The New York Times reported on May 18. 2018, that a longtime FBI/CIA informant had met Flynn at an intelligence seminar in Britain six months earlier and became alarmed by his closeness to a Russian woman there; this concern prompted another individual to alert American authorities that Flynn may have been compromised by Russian intelligence.

Michael Flynn Age

Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General and convicted felon who was briefly the National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump. Fynn was born in December 1958 in Fort Meade, MD, he is 60 years old as of 2018.

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Thomas Flynn was born and raised in Middletown, Rhode Island, as one of nine siblings. He was born to his parents Helen Frances (née Andrews), who worked in real estate, and Charles Francis Flynn, a small-town banker, both Roman Catholics of Irish descent.

Michael Flynn Education

He graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science degree in management science in 1981 and was a Distinguished Military Graduate of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

He also earned a Master of Business Administration in Telecommunications from Golden Gate University, a Master of Military Art and Science from the United States Army Command and General Staff College, and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.

He is a graduate of the Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course, Ranger School, Military Intelligence Officer Advanced Course, Army Command and General Staff College, the School of Advanced Military Studies, and Naval War College.

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He got married to Lori Andrade in 1982. The pair first met when they were both students at the Middletown High School in Rhode Island. Having known each other since their sophomore year, it was in their senior year that they began dating. The couple has been blessed with two kids; Michael Flynn Jr. and Matt Flynn.

Just like his father, Michael Flynn Jr. is under investigation and there were speculations that he could be charged in the investigation.

There were reports that the older Flynn was warned that his son could be charged and that made him take a plea deal and even cooperate with investigators. According to the younger Flynn, however, his father only decided to take a plea deal because of the financial burden that the case brought upon the family.

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His net worth is estimated to be around $1million dollars as of 2019. He accumulated his wealth from being an FBI and also later other sources like speaking fees from Russian news outlet RT. He also later disclosed his advisory role related to Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm behind Trump’s campaign that pilfered millions of Facebook users’ data.

This year has not been too financially kind to Flynn, either. In March, he sold his townhouse in order to offset his legal bills. Flynn bought the home in early 2012 for $700,000, according to Realtor.com, and he put it up for sale for $835,000, which would have resulted in a net gain had it not been for his defense fund. The sell-off was the result of Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI regarding his communications with Russian actors.

Michael Flynn Owes Around $5 Million in Legal Fees

Since December 2017, former national security adviser Michael Flynn has provided what Special Counsel Robert Mueller called “substantial assistance” to multiple investigations on the Trump campaign’s reported contacts with Russia.

Fortunately for Flynn, his plea deal and extended cooperation have helped delay his sentence for lying to the FBI until after his role in the investigation is complete — which it now is. Unfortunately for the convicted felon, such a prolonged legal process puts a dent into one’s wallet, whether it’s filled with American dollars or Turkish lira.

According to a report from ABC News, Flynn now owes his lawyers some $5 million in fees. A source close to Flynn told ABC that the former Trump surrogate hired blue-label D.C. lawyers Stephen Anthony and Robert Kelner to represent him, a decision that would put a dent in any budget after a year and a half of counsel. As Vanity Fair reported toward the beginning of the Mueller investigation, the calibre of legal representation needed to stand tall against the special counsel and other inquiries could make any wallet seem anemic:

A massive amount of wealth is about to be transferred to a certain quadrant of the D.C. bar. According to Jeffress, the most experienced and in-demand white-collar lawyers in Washington typically charge corporate clients and people indemnified by corporations over $1,000 per hour—though it’s not uncommon for them to cut their rates to somewhere between $750 and $900 per hour for clients who are paying for their representation out of their own pockets—which is even true for non-public officials.

But Jeffress noted that even if an individual faces only an interview by the F.B.I. and there aren’t gigabytes of information to review, a lawyer would still likely devote 40 to 60 hours on their case. Which at the low end would cost a White House staffer $30,000 and at the high end, $54,000. And if there is a grand jury subpoena, or if the person faces possible criminal exposure, he said the total cost of their legal fees could easily be five times that much.

Flynn has already put his Alexandria, Virginia, townhouse on the market for nearly $900,000 — a little less than a fifth of his reported legal fees. But if the former National Security adviser — who served in the White House for a record-short 25 days — has taken a financial hit, he’s not the only Trump acolyte to get all but wiped out as a result of legally questionable behavior during the campaign, or covering over its defects after the fact.

In addition to legal fees of a reported $1 million and a three-year prison sentence, Michael Cohen’s guilty plea involved forfeiture of $500,000, fines totaling $100,000, and restitution of $1.4 million.

(In March, Cohen sued the Trump Organization to cover legal fees he incurred after agreeing to cooperate.) And Paul Manafort — who worked for the Trump campaign for free, reportedly in order to gain standing to revive his lobbying career — agreed to forfeit real-estate holdings and cash worth somewhere between $42 and $46 million. Manafort’s money alone was enough to put the Mueller investigation into the black.

Although Flynn’s role in the wrapped-up Mueller investigation is obviously complete, the former Army lieutenant general may be set to incur another season of legal fees, as his attorneys are reportedly pursuing a delay in sentencing until after the trial of his Turkish business associates, which will begin in July.

Michael Flynn Author

Flynn co-authored a report in January 2010 through the Center for a New American Security, entitled Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan.

That report, which became influential, argued that U.S. intelligence agencies “must open their doors to anyone who is willing to exchange information, involving Afghans and NGOs “non-governmental organizations” as well as the US military and its allies”.

Flynn is also an author of “The Field of Fight”: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, co-authored with Michael Ledeen, which was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2016.

In reviewing the book, Will McCants of the Brookings Institution described Flynn’s worldview as a confused combination of neoconservatism “an insistence on destroying what he sees as an alliance of tyranny, dictatorships, and radical Islamist regimes” and realism “support for working with “friendly tyrants”, although he acknowledged that this could be due to the book having two authors.

Michael Flynn Actor

Flynn sat in on classified national security briefings with former candidate Trump at the same time that Flynn was working for foreign clients, which raises ethical concerns and conflicts of interest. Flynn was paid at least $5,000 to serve as a consultant to a U.S.-Russian project to build 40 nuclear reactors across the Middle East, which Flynn’s failure to disclose was flagged by Representatives Elijah Cummings and Eliot Engel as a possible violation of federal law.

Michael Flynn Attorney

Sullivan rebuked Flynn at his December 18 sentencing hearing. Citing evidence not released to the public, the judge told him, “arguably you sold your country out”, and warned, “I cannot assure that if you proceed today you will not receive a sentence of incarceration.”

He offered to delay the sentencing until Flynn’s cooperation with investigators was complete. After conferring with his attorneys, Flynn accepted the delay. During the hearing, Sullivan indicated he was offended by the suggestion in the sentencing memo submitted by Flynn’s attorneys that the FBI had misled him, as it created an appearance that Flynn wanted to both accept a generous plea deal from prosecutors while also contending he had been entrapped.

He asked several questions of his’s attorney, Robert Kelner, to determine if the defense was maintaining that the FBI had acted improperly in its investigation of Flynn, such as whether he had been entrapped. Kelner responded, “No, your honor” to each question. Flynn acknowledged to Sullivan that he was aware that lying to federal investigators was a crime at the time of his initial FBI interview in January 2017. Sullivan then delayed sentencing.

Michael Flynn Defense Fund

Mike has served the nation for nearly four decades during a time of war and peace, including nearly five years in combat. He has also received numerous awards and military decorations. He is a four-time recipient of the bronze star medal, as well as the intelligence community’s gold medallion, and other civilians, law enforcement and defensive honors.

The costs of legal representation associated with responding to the multiple investigations that have arisen in the wake of the 2016 election place a great burden on Mike and his family. They are deeply grateful for considering a donation to help pay expenses relating to his legal representation.

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Turkey and Michael Flynn: Five things to know

The Justice Department unsealed charges against two associates of former national security advisor Michael Flynn, detailing an alleged secret lobbying campaign on behalf of the Turkish government.

The charges were announced one day before Flynn is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Washington, D.C. for lying to FBI agents about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.

The indictment does not name Flynn, but describes a “Person A” who matches Flynn’s description: A co-founder of a consulting group that offered services based on that person’s “national security expertise.”

It also provided new details on a case that first got Flynn, the former Defense Intelligence Agency director who resigned as President Trump’s national security advisor after lying about conversations with Russians, on federal investigators’ radar in 2016.

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Here are five things to know about the connection between Flynn and Turkey.

The Turkish coup and extradition requests

On a July 2016 night, factions of the Turkish armed forces attempted to overthrow the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan defeated the coup attempt, but the ramifications have rippled through Ankara and U.S.-Turkish relations since.

Erdogan accused a Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen and his followers of orchestrating the attempt to oust him. Gulen, a legal U.S. resident, has been living in rural Pennsylvania since 1999 under self-imposed exile from Turkey. He and Erdogan used to be allies before Erdogan turned on him.

Gulen denies any responsibility in the coup.

Erdogan first demanded Gulen’s extradition shortly after the coup attempt in 2016, but the Obama administration said the documents Turkey sent over had nothing to do with the coup and that Gulen’s due process rights must be respected.

The Trump administration has also publicly said Gulen is entitled to due process rights. But reports have surfaced in recent months that the Trump administration is considering his extradition. Most recently, Turkey’s foreign minister said Sunday that Trump told Erdogan he was working on the request when they met at the G-20 summit.

The Flynn op-ed

Scrutiny on Flynn’s ties to Turkey first stemmed from an op-ed he wrote for The Hill on Election Day 2016.

In the op-ed, Flynn defended Erdogan from criticism of his crackdown on dissidents and labeled Gulen a “shady Islamic mullah” who “portrays himself as a moderate, but he is, in fact, a radical Islamist.”

It was later revealed that his now-defunct Flynn Intel Group had been paid $530,000 by a Dutch-based company called Inovo BV, which in turn had ties to the Turkish government.

The bulk of the $530,000 contract was to produce a documentary to boost Turkey’s image, as well as to conduct research on Gulen. In March 2017, Flynn and his consulting firm retroactively registered as foreign agents working on behalf of Turkey.

In Dec. 2017 legal filing, though, Flynn admitted lying in the March filings to the Justice Department, including by falsely stating that the Flynn Intel Group did not know to what extent the Turkish government was involved in the project and that the op-ed was written on his own initiative.

Flynn’s associates

The charges unsealed Monday were against two Flynn associates: Bijan Kian and Kamil Ekim Alptekin. Kian, also known by Bijan Rafiekian, co-founded the consulting firm with Flynn and served as its vice-chairman, director, secretary, and treasurer. He also worked on Trump’s national security transition team.

Kian was charged with conspiracy and acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Turkish government. He appeared in court Monday in Alexandria, Va., and was released on a personal recognizance bond. Alptekin, meanwhile, ran Inovo. He is a Turkish national currently believed to be in Istanbul.

Alptekin was charged with conspiracy, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and four counts of making false statements to the FBI.

The Dec. 12 indictment unsealed Monday alleges that Kian and Alptekin “conspired covertly and unlawfully to influence U.S. politicians and public opinion concerning a Turkish citizen living in the United States whose extradition was then being sought by the Government of Turkey.”

The indictment does not specifically name Gulen. But it describes the Turkish citizen as an “imam, writer and political figure” who “runs a network of schools and charitable organizations,” lives in the United States and has been blamed by Turkey for the 2016 coup attempt — a description that perfectly fits Gulen.

The allegations

The narrative the indictment lays out starts on July 27, 2016. On or about that date, Kian told Alptekin that he and Flynn are “ready to engage on what needs to be done,” according to the document.

By Aug. 10, 2016, the indictment says, Alptekin told Kian that he had a “green light” to discuss the confidentiality, budget, and scope of a contract after meetings with two Turkish government ministers.

In September 2016, a contract was drawn up for $600,000 for the Flynn Intel Group to “deliver findings and results including but not limited to making criminal referrals” against Gulen, according to the indictment.

The indictment alleges Kian and Alptekin hid the covert effort, first branded the “Truth Campaign” and later “Operation Confidence,” by listing Alptekin’s company as the Flynn Intel Group’s client rather than the Turkish government.

On Sept. 19, 2016, Flynn, Kian and Alptekin met with two Turkish government officials in New York City to discuss Gulen, the indictment says. Throughout September and October that year, Kian and others met with a member of Congress, a congressional staffer, and a state government official to “depict [Gulen] as a threat who should be returned to Turkey,” the indictment adds.

On Nov. 2, 2016, according to the filing, Alptekin complained to Kian that Flynn’s firm had “not publicized enough negative information” about Gulen. That day, Kian sent Alptekin a draft of the op-ed, telling him that “a promise made is a promise kept.”

Two days before the op-ed ran, Kian emailed Aptekin that “The arrow has left the bow!” and shared another draft. “This is a very high profile exposure one day before the election,” Kian added. After the op-ed was published, the Justice Department began investigating, the indictment says.

The connection to Mueller

While federal prosecutors in Virginia began the investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and allegations of collusion by the Trump campaign, reportedly took over the Turkey investigation in 2017.

At some point, according to reports, Mueller then referred to the case back to prosecutors in Alexandria.

In the Russia case, Flynn pleaded guilty in Dec. 2017 to lying to FBI agents about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States and agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s investigation.

In a sentencing memo from Mueller earlier this month that recommended Flynn serve no jail time, Mueller appeared to reference the Turkey investigation.

The memo said Flynn provided “substantial assistance” in several unspecified cases on top of the Russia probe. The heavily redacted memo does not say the Turkey case is one in which Flynn helped, but it was widely believed to be one because it is a case in which Flynn has direct knowledge.

In the memo, Mueller also wrote that Flynn’s op-ed was “valuable to the Republic of Turkey’s efforts to shape public opinion.”

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