LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN: “The family of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has set up a legal defense fund for him, soliciting donations to ease the ‘tremendous financial burden’ from the ongoing investigations into his actions and the 2016 presidential campaign…
The fund will not accept donations from foreign governments, nor will it accept money from the Trump campaign or the Trump Organization.
Flynn, a retired general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was among President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters during the campaign and was named national security adviser ahead of last January’s inauguration.
But Flynn became increasingly wrapped up in the multiple ongoing investigations into Russian interference in last year’s election and ultimately resigned just weeks after Trump’s inauguration amid media reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the nature of conversations he had had with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
Flynn himself thanked his brother and sister Monday morning via Twitter, writing in a pair of posts that he and his wife ‘are very grateful to my brother Joe and sister Barbara for creating a fund to help pay my legal defense costs. We deeply appreciate the support of family and friends across this nation who have touched our lives.’ The former national security director added a link to the defense fund’s website to the second post.”
-Louis Nelson, “Legal defense fund set up for Michael Flynn,” Politico, Sept. 18, 2017 08:32am