LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn won’t provide records to the Senate intelligence committee and will invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in response to a subpoena from the committee, according to a source close to Flynn.
Flynn’s refusal to cooperate comes as he faces scrutiny in several inquiries, including on Capitol Hill and a federal grand jury that has issued subpoenas to associates of the ex-national security adviser.
Flynn’s refusal to cooperate will also intensify scrutiny over Trump’s decision to hire him initially for the job and his decision to keep him on staff for 18 days after the President was warned by former acting Attorney General Sally Yates that Flynn may have been compromised by the Russians.
The Senate committee had asked Flynn earlier this month to produce all records over his communications with Russian officials by this Wednesday [5-24-17]. But Flynn is expected to send a letter later Monday invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.
The source close to Flynn said it would be ‘highly imprudent for him not to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights’ given that several members of Congress have called for his prosecution.”
-Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb, “Michael Flynn expected to invoke Fifth Amendment, source says,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 22, 2017 12:35pm