In late summer 2016, after he has been serving as a top national security advisor to candidate Trump for a year, Flynn meets at the JW Marriott Essex House New York hotel “with top Turkish government ministers and discusse[s] removing a Muslim cleric [Fethullah Gulen] from the U.S. and taking him to Turkey.”39 The action discussed by the parties would violate the federal kidnapping statute, as it would be orchestrated to “get Gulen … to Turkey without going through the U.S. extradition legal process,” according to the Wall Street Journal.40
