Former US national security adviser Michael Flynn, using the Fifth Amendment, allowing not to testify against himself, decided not to transfer the requested documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Russia's interference in the US presidential election.
Failure to do this sapino - the failure to submit documents after receiving the agenda can be recognized as contempt for the Congress, which, in turn, threatens with a fine or imprisonment.
Two weeks ago, the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a summons to Flynn asking for documents necessary for the investigation.
Before this, Flynn's lawyer demanded immunity from persecution in exchange for cooperation with investigators.
Last week, Sen. Richard Ber, chairman of the committee, complained to journalists that Flynn did not cooperate with the investigators, adding that the committee had not received a clear answer whether the former adviser would testify.
The US Department of Justice appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Russia's interference in the presidential election campaign - Robert Mueller, who led the FBI from 2001 to 2013.
Investigation of Flynn was also initiated by the Ministry of Defense after it was found out that the former adviser received payments from foreign organizations shortly after leaving the Pentagon.
Flynn resigned in February, admitting that he misinformed the leadership about contacts with the Russian ambassador in Washington, Sergei Kislyak.
The refusal of Michael Flynn from cooperation with the investigation suggests that Trump's team decided to deny everything.
Whether it will help them to avoid a total fiasco, and Trump will avoid impeachment, we still have to make sure.
Today, Trump said in Israel: "I never mentioned Israel during the meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak".
Putin has already stated that he can provide the US Congress with a complete record of Trump's talks with the "sweet couple".
Can you believe Trump's public statements if he himself refutes them the next day?.
Came-out of Manafort and Shufrych Contacts Paul Manafort, another colleague of Trump - the former head of his campaign, with pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine are not limited to cooperation with former President Viktor Yanukovych and the "Party of Regions".
Bloomberg: "Even after Yanukovich fled to Russia and the annexation of Russia by the Crimea in 2014, Manafort returned to Ukraine 17 times, receiving at least $ 1 million for help in re-election of pro-Russian politicians".
A month after the annexation of the Crimea, Manafort returned to Ukraine to advise the pro-Russian party "Opposition bloc" in the parliamentary election campaign of 2014.
As one of the party leaders Nestor Shufrich told Bloomberg, Manafort insisted that the party should simultaneously oppose Ukraine's accession to NATO and be the "voice" of the pro-Russian population in eastern Ukraine.
According to another representative of the "Opposition Bloc", whose name does not lead the publication, Manafort personally approved the party list of candidates for the Verkhovna Rada.
Shufrich said that the party paid Manafort $ 1 million and that he personally celebrated with him this event for a bottle of cognac in the Kiev office of the political technologist.
Trump, it turns out, asked the leaders of the two US intelligence services to persuade the head of the FBI James Komi to "put the Flynn on the brakes" and generally forget about the Kremlin's interference in the elections in the US, and they took it and through "unnamed sources" merged this fact into the "Washington Post".
Here are the sycophants!.
There is a fact of collusion of special services with the media, and all - against Trump.
But he's a good man, he wanted to give Ukraine a gift to Putin, but the bloodthirsty Zhidobanderovs prevented.
How to live?.
Meanwhile, the European Union published today a decision on introducing a visa-free regime for Ukrainian citizens in the official EU journal of May 22, 2017.
In 20 days, the citizens will be able to travel to Europe without visas.