Flynn Misled Pentagon On Russian Ties

Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Mon, 05/22/2017 - 2:06pm

Michael Flynn “misled Pentagon investigators about his income from Russian companies and contacts with Russian officials when he applied for a top-secret security clearance last year,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Flynn, who resigned this year as President Trump’s national security adviser, told investigators in February 2016 that he had received no income from foreign companies and had only ‘insubstantial contact’ with foreign nationals, according to the letter.

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