Key witness against Michael Flynn and Donald Trump has vanished
Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is facing so many different kinds of legal trouble, it’s difficult to know where to start. The most eye-popping is that Flynn allegedly conspired with the government of Turkey to kidnap a guy in Pennsylvania and ship him overseas, a plot which was never carried to fruition. Now a key witness against Flynn is, as far as anyone knows or is willing to say, simply missing.
Reza Zarrab has long been sitting in a jail cell in the United States, awaiting trial for a number of serious charges involving the government of Turkey. Zarrab just so happens to be a resident of Trump Towers Istanbul. Even more strangely, former Trump campaign adviser Rudy Giuliani was acting as a legal adviser for Zarrab during his trial, until the judge decided that Giuliani was actually trying to sabotage the trial. It’s widely believed that Zarrab has cut a deal and is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his pursuit of Michael Flynn for the Turkey kidnapping conspiracy. The trouble: Zarrab has vanished.
According to an Associated Press report published in the Miami Herald (link), no one knows where Reza Zarrab is – or at least no one is willing to say. He failed to show up to his own trial on Monday. His attorney won’t say where he is. Nor will anyone else involved with the trial. The judge doesn’t seem too concerned either, as he’s decided to merely delay the trial proceedings by a week. That’s not how this would be playing out if Zarrab had fled, so we know something else is going on here.
The most likely explanation would be that Reza Zarrab is busy testifying in Robert Mueller’s grand jury against Michael Flynn. As Palmer Report has previously pointed out, Mueller appears to be collecting sealed indictments against Donald Trump from each grand jury against a Trump underling (link). Thus Zarrab is also a witness against Trump. But for the moment the guy has simply vanished. No one is willing to say where he is – but it’s not that difficult to figure it out.
