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Ex-Flynn business partner convicted of illegal lobbying

(Jacquelyn Martin | AP Photo) In this Dec. 17, 2018 photo, Bijan Kian, whose full name is Bijan Rafiekian, leaves the FBI Washington Field Office in Washington. A jury on Tuesday, July 23, 2019,  has convicted Kian, a one-time business partner of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, on charges he illegally acted as a Turkish agent when he and Flynn undertook a project to discredit an exiled cleric wanted by Turkey’s government.

(Jacquelyn Martin | AP Photo) In this Dec. 17, 2018 photo, Bijan Kian, whose full name is Bijan Rafiekian, leaves the FBI Washington Field Office in Washington. A jury on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, has convicted Kian, a one-time business partner of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, on charges he illegally acted as a Turkish agent when he and Flynn undertook a project to discredit an exiled cleric wanted by Turkey’s government.