Flynn, son were to be paid $15m to kidnap a cleric

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is probing an alleged plot for Michael Flynn and his son to kidnap a cleric living in the U.S. and deliver him to the Turkish government for a $15 million fee.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan viewed cleric Fethullah Gulen as an enemy of the state and had been pressing the United States to extradite him. 

The Journal reported that FBI agents have asked at least four individuals about a meeting in mid-December in which Flynn and a representative from the Turkish government discussed putting Gulen on a private jet and carting him off to the Turkish prison island of Imrali.

A political enemy to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cleric Fethullah Gulen (pictured) could have been whisked out of the country by Michael Flynn and his son, sources of the Wall Street Journal say 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly probing the plan to kidnap a cleric, put him on a private plane and fly him to a Turkish prison island – in which the two Flynn would be paid $15 million 

The cleric, Fethullah Gulen, was considered a political enemy to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) 

The meeting was held at New York City’s ’21’ Club.  

The Wall Street Journal said its sources weren’t on hand at the December meeting, but were familiar with the Mueller investigation, though didn’t know how deep the special counsel was probing the plot.  

A spokesman for Mueller didn’t comment to the Wall Street Journal and neither did lawyers for both Flynns. 

This investigation is another tentacle of Mueller’s expansive probe into Russia and the country’s meddling into the 2016 election as the former FBI head examines whether there was collusion between the Kremlin and any of President Trump’s associates. 

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn had been one of Trump’s foreign policy advisers during the campaign and briefly served as his White House national security advisor, though resigned in February – the first of many heads to roll in the Trump administration. 

His son, Michael G. Flynn, had been doing work for the Trump transition team, but got booted when he tweeted about the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, a made-up story about Hillary Clinton and her Campaign Chairman John Podesta running a child trafficking ring out of the basement of a D.C. pizza parlor.