Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI
On 1 December 2017 Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
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On 1 December 2017 Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The plea was entered in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, and the accompanying statement of offense set out how Flynn had given investigators false accounts of his calls with the ambassador.
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Michael Flynn
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Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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- 1.cnn.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: flynn+guilty+fbi · verified
- 2.edition.cnn.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: flynn+guilty+fbi · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/flynn-pleads-guilty-false-statements-fbi-2017-12-01
https://factrail.ai/facts/flynn-pleads-guilty-false-statements-fbi-2017-12-01
Accessed 15 October 2026.
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