Michael Flynn Being Paid More Than $1 Million by USDOJ

Michael Flynn Being Paid More Than $1 Million by USDOJ

 

 

The Justice Department has reached a settlement with Rhode Island native Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser.

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Flynn will receive more than $1 million. He had sued the government for millions of dollars over what he alleged to be a wrongful prosecution.

 

CNN reports:

In a brief court filing Wednesday, lawyers for both Flynn and the Justice Department said they reached an agreement to drop the lawsuit and for Flynn to receive “settlement funds.” While the filing did not include the amount of money, or elaborate on any other terms of the settlement, a person familiar with the matter said Flynn would receive more than $1 million in the agreement.

Flynn sued the government for $50 million, alleging that the FBI tried to entrap him in the early days of the Trump administration.

The incidents go back nearly a decade.

“The accusations in Flynn’s lawsuit stemmed from a criminal case brought in December 2017 — during Trump’s first year in office — in which Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI about his interactions with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and in a Justice Department disclosure regarding his lobbying firm’s work for Turkey a year earlier. He agreed at the time to cooperate in the Mueller investigation, and helped special counsel Robert Mueller piece together several instances where it was later alleged President Donald Trump attempted to obstruct the investigation,” reports CNN.

That is not the only high-profile lawsuit involving Flynn’s family.

In 2021, Flynn’s brother, Jack, and his wife sued CNN for $75 million.

That suit was ultimately thrown out.