Flynn Intel Group
The Flynn Intel Group is a lobbying group established by Michael Flynn in October 2014.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/us/politics/michael-flynn-turkey.html|title=Michael Flynn Was Paid to Represent Turkey's Interests During Trump Campaign|newspaper=The New York Times|date=10 March 2017|last1=Baker|first1=Peter|last2=Rosenberg|first2=Matthew}} Flynn registered the company from the home of his friend Stanley A. McChrystal, a "fellow general-turned-consultant."{{cite news|last1=Confessore|first1=Nicholas|title=How Michael Flynn's Disdain for Limits Led to a Legal Quagmire|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/us/politics/michael-flynn-intel-group-trump.html|work=The New York Times|date=18 June 2017}}
Kamil Ekim Alptekin, a Turkish businessman close to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's leader, is a client of Flynn Intel Group.{{cite web|last1=Buncombe|first1=Andrew|title=Donald Trump's national security chief 'took money from Putin and Erdogan', says former NSA employee|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-michael-flynn-money-putin-erdogan-nsa-worker-claims-a7437041.html|work=The Independent|date=24 November 2016}} Inovo, a company owned by Alptekin, paid the Flynn Intel Group $530,000 to investigate Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-resident cleric who is wanted by the Turkish government. The group's failure to register as a foreign agent after accepting this contract was among the activities examined by Robert Mueller's 2017 Special Counsel investigation.{{cite web|last1=Sheth|first1=Sonam|title=Mueller is eyeing Flynn's involvement in a film his lobbying firm did not want anyone to know about|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-michael-flynn-intel-group-fethullah-gulen-turkey-trump-russia-2017-11|publisher=Business Insider|access-date=2 December 2017}}
Subsidiaries of the Flynn Intel Group include FIG Cyber Inc and FIG Aviation. They are headed by Timothy Newberry and Mike Coomes.{{cite news |url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/michael-flynn-fired-once-by-a-president-now-resigns-to-another-1.3284392 |publisher=CTV News |title=Michael Flynn, fired once by a president, now resigns to another |first1=Stephen |last1=Braun |first2=Robert |last2=Burns |date=February 14, 2017}}{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-mystery-behind-a-flynn-associates-quiet-work-for-the-trump-campaign/2017/05/04/fc86980e-3044-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=The mystery behind a Flynn associate's quiet work for the Trump campaign |date=May 4, 2017 |first=Matea |last=Gold}}{{cite web|title=U.S. Chamber of Commerve|url=https://www.uschamber.com/moderator-mike-coomes}} Other employees included Flynn's son, Michael G. Flynn, who served as his father's chief of staff.{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Carol E.|last2=Ainsley|first2=Julia|last3=Dilanian|first3=Ken|title=Mike Flynn's Son Is Subject of Federal Russia Probe|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mike-flynn-s-son-subject-federal-russia-probe-n800741|work=NBC News|access-date=2 December 2017}}
The group's House Identification number is 433680001 and Senate Identification number is 401104161.{{cite web|title=Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995|url=http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldxmlrelease/2016/RR/300824839.xml}}