He has long had associations with Russia and sat next to President Vladimir Putin at a dinner in Moscow in 2015. NBC News reported this month that Mueller’s team had enough evidence to bring charges against Flynn and his son, Michael G. Flynn, who served as his father’s chief of staff during the campaign. The elder Flynn had previously signaled that he would not cooperate with a Senate intelligence committee investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in May. His cooperation would provide insight about Trump’s campaign and his early days in the White House. Mueller’s probe snagged its first targets last month, when former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate, Richard Gates, were indicted on charges of conspiracy and money laundering.

Source: Huffington Post November 23, 2017 22:30 UTC