Michael Flynn’s business partner charged with illegally lobbying for Turkey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynns-business-partner-charged-with-illegally-lobbying-for-turkey/2018/12/17/46fb3762-020a-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.b7adf3aa1a2b&noredirect=on
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-men-charged-conspiracy-and-acting-agents-foreign-government
Democrats take cautious view of subpoena powers as they ready investigations
top Democrats warn that the powerful tool is not a magic wand.
Democrats poised to take control of the House in January are building a strategy for investigating the Trump administration on a range of domestic and foreign policy issues and how they may intersect with the president’s business empire. Yet the most powerful tool at their disposal — a congressional subpoena — is being held in reserve for the short term, multiple Democratic congressional officials involved in the decision-making tell NBC News.
Top lawmakers, aides and former congressional officials warn that subpoena power, while potentially a valuable tool for extracting information, is hardly a magic wand. That’s likely to be especially true now, if the Trump administration challenges Democratic-led inquiries as is widely expected.
Rather than begin with what one congressional aide referred to as a “T-shirt cannon” approach of firing off multiple subpoenas immediately, key committees are planning a more deliberate approach, the officials involved say. It will start with targeted requests for information from Trump officials, in some cases directed at lower-level bureaucrats who might be more likely to comply.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-take-cautious-view-subpoena-powers-they-ready-investigations-n948531