Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating an alleged plan that former White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn discussed with the Turkish government to forcibly remove a Muslim cleric from the US.

Flynn and his son were allegedly to be paid as much as $15 million by the Turkish government.

Mueller has reportedly compiled enough evidence to bring charges against Flynn and his son, who worked with him on his lobbying work.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly investigating an alleged plan that former White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn discussed with the Turkish government to forcibly remove a Muslim cleric living in the US in exchange for $15 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The alleged plan would have involved Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr., delivering Fethullah Gulen to the Turkish government, which views Gulen, whom the US government has refused to extradite, as a political enemy.

Flynn and representatives of the Turkish government reportedly discussed the proposal, which involved flying Gulen on a private jet to a prison on the island of Imrali, during a meeting in mid-December 2016 at the 21 Club in New York City, according to the Journal's sources.

Mueller, who is charged with investigating "any matters" that arise out of his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, has reportedly compiled enough evidence to bring charges against Flynn and his son, according to NBC News.

The evidence relates to Flynn's lobbying work throughout the latter half of 2016 - while he was a top Trump campaign surrogate - for a businessman with ties to the Turkish government. Flynn did not register with the US Justice Department as a foreign agent until March 2017, after he was ousted from the White House following reports that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his communications with Russian officials.

Flynn Jr. appears to have been closely associated with his father's work. In addition to co-founding and working for Flynn Intel Group, he joined his father during a trip to Moscow in December 2015, NBC reported, during which Flynn was paid $34,000 to deliver a speech at an event celebrating the state-sponsored news agency RT.

Trump waited nearly three weeks to fire Flynn after former acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned him that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail over his conversations with former Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak.

The president also ignored advice from former President Barack Obama, who fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014, to steer clear of him entirely.

Trump also asked former FBI director James Comey to "let go" of the FBI's investigation into Flynn's activities during a February meeting shortly after Flynn was forced to resign.

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Also, Uranium One deal (and subsequent $100mm donation to Clinton Foundation) is NBD, right?

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Am I missing something here?

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So this random kidnapping operation was independent of his Russia ties? Like, every single one of these allegations seems far fetched beyond belief.

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And anyway, Trump cut ties and fired this guy! That’s Trump exercising good judgment.

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Around the country, the most persistent controversy involving the schools — and the one most covered in the news — centers on the hundreds of Turkish teachers and administrators working on special visas.

The schools say they bring in foreign teachers because of a shortage of Americans qualified to teach math and science. Of the 1,500 employees at the Texas Harmony schools this year, Dr. Tarim said, 292 were on the special “H-1B” visas, meant for highly skilled foreign workers who fill a need unmet by the American workforce.

But some teachers and their unions, as well as immigration experts, have questioned how earnestly the schools worked to recruit American workers. They say loopholes have made it easy to bring in workers with relatively ordinary skills who substitute for American workers.

“I think they have a preference for these H-1B workers,” said Dr. Ronil Hira, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology who has studied the visa program. “It may be a preference for a variety of reasons — lower wages or a network where they’ve got family or friends and connections and this is a stepping stone for them to get a green card.”

The American jobs, often offered to educators at Gulen schools around the world or graduates of Gulen universities, also provide a way for the movement to expand its ranks in this country, Dr. Yavuz said.

American consular employees reviewing visas have questioned the credentials of some teachers as they sought to enter the country. “Most applicants had no prior teaching experience, and the schools were listed as related to” Mr. Gulen, a consular employee wrote in a 2009 cable. It did not say which schools had hired the teachers. Some with dubious credentials were denied visas.

In February, a Chicago charter school union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers complained to the federal Department of Labor, alleging that the Chicago Math and Science Academy and Concept Schools, a group that operates 25 schools in the Midwest, had abused the visa system by “routinely assigning these teachers duties or class load that seemingly do not take into account the laws governing H1-B visa holders.”

The Labor Department had already been investigating at least one Concept school. The investigation appeared to have been triggered by a complaint in July 2008 by Mustafa Emanet, a network systems administrator and teacher at a middle school in Cleveland. By law, imported teachers must be paid “prevailing wage.” Mr. Emanet alleged that while his visa reflected his promised salary, $44,000, he was actually paid $28,000 his first year.

A Labor Department spokesman said the investigation was ongoing

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