Right now, Gen Michael Flynn is being scrutinized for his work for Turkey and his failure to register as an agent for a foreign country. Fair enough.
But, Tony Podesta worked as an agent for Turkey, too and also did not register, yet no one ha s bankrupted him like they have Flynn. And this is not the first time this has happened. Paul Manafort is sitting in solitary confinement as Tony Podesta walks free, unencumbered and both of them worked for the Russian puppet regime in Ukraine, without registering as foreign agents.
Two weeks before Manafort was charged with being an unregistered agent, Podesta was tipped off by someone in the Mueller witch hunt and he registered late and Mueller gave him immunity from prosecution.
Via FOX News
The most worrisome statement by Judge Sullivan involved Flynn being a foreign agent as national security adviser. Flynn’s work as a lobbyist has been raised in the investigation, but this was work Flynn did before he became national security adviser in the White House and was unrelated to the Russia investigation.
Yet the judge cited Flynn’s lobbying on behalf of Turkey as an aggravating factor he was considering in sentencing Flynn – despite the fact that this was not being used by the prosecutor as an aggravating factor.
Flynn has never been accused of being a foreign agent as national security adviser. Flynn did retroactively declare that his work between August and November 2016 as a lobbyist “could be construed to have principally benefited the Republic of Turkey.” That work was not for Russia and such retroactive declarations are not uncommon.
Indeed, various figures like Democratic powerhouse Tony Podesta (brother of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta) filed the same retroactive declaration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act involving the same underlying work for the same country.
Violations under Foreign Agents Registration Act (until the Mueller investigation) were rarely prosecuted as criminal matters. The vast majority of cases were matters of simple filings and fee payments, or in a few cases civil penalties.
The failure to file as a lobbyist for Turkey under the Foreign Agents Registration Act hardly makes Flynn the modern-day equivalent of Benedict Arnold. It makes him the Republican version of Tony Podesta, who is enjoying his retirement in his home in the upscale Kalomara neighborhood of Washington a few doors down from the former President Obama and his family.
The moral to this story is if you are going to break the law, make sure you register as a Democrat, otherwise, you could go to jail.