Politico:

Less than two months after former special counsel Robert Mueller announced the end of his high-profile investigation of foreign influence on the Trump presidential campaign, his office’s work is facing one of its most notable courtroom tests as a former business partner of Gen. Michael Flynn fights foreign-agent-related charges stemming from Mueller’s probe.

Jury selection is set to open Monday morning in federal court in Alexandria, Va., for Bijan Rafiekian, an Iranian-American businessman facing two felony charges connected to a short-lived lobbying and public-relations campaign Flynn and Rafiekian undertook in 2016 that targeted a dissident Turkish cleric living in Pennsylvania, Fethullah Gulen.

Flynn and Rafiekian declared the project publicly in September 2016 — while Flynn was serving as a top adviser to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — as a routine commercial lobbying project for a Dutch business.

However, as Flynn’s connections to Russia and other foreign countries came under intense scrutiny in early 2017 during his stint as Trump’s national security adviser, FBI agents and prosecutors concluded that the lobbying was actually being done at the direction of Turkey’s government.

In March 2017, attorneys for Flynn and his Flynn Intel Group made a belated, “retroactive” filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, acknowledging that the work Flynn and Rafiekian did trying to get Gulen expelled from the U.S. “could be construed to have principally benefitted the Government of Turkey.”

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