FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Flynn is detailing previously undisclosed... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Flynn is detailing previously undisclosed... (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, disclosed a brief advisory role with a firm related to a controversial data analysis company that aided the Trump campaign, according to a filing Flynn submitted to the White House. 
 
 The disclosure of Flynn's link to Cambridge Analytica came in an amended public financial filing in which the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general also discloses income that includes payments from the Trump transition team. The filing was made public by the White House on Friday in response to an Associated Press reporter's request. 
 
 Meanwhile, The New York Times reported Friday night that Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, has asked the White House for documents related to Flynn. 
 
 The newspaper says investigators on Mueller's team have asked witnesses whether the Turkish government made secret payments to Flynn during the 2016 presidential campaign. The Times cited anonymous sources close to Mueller's investigation. 
 
 Flynn's now-defunct consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group, is under scrutiny by federal authorities and congressional investigators for its role in research and lobbying work for a Turkish businessman tied to the government of Turkey. The AP reported in May about inconsistencies in Flynn's disclosures about payments from the Turkish client, Ekim Alptekin. 
 
 The amended disclosure filed Friday by Flynn lists him as an adviser to SCL Group, a Virginia-based company related to Cambridge Analytica, the data mining and analysis firm that worked with Trump's campaign. 
 
 A person close to Flynn told the AP that just before the end of the campaign, Flynn agreed to do consulting for the firm, but he never performed any work or accepted any payment as part of the agreement with SCL Group. The person spoke to AP on condition of anonymity Thursday to describe details of the filing made to the White House. 
 
 The details of Flynn's role with SCL weren't fully laid out, the person said, noting that Flynn terminated his involvement shortly after Trump won the presidency. 
 
 Cambridge Analytica is backed by the family of Robert Mercer, a hedge fund manager who also supported the campaign and other conservative candidates and causes. Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon was a vice president of Cambridge Analytica before he joined the Trump campaign. 
 
 Media reports in Britain and some statements by leaders involved in the pro-Brexit campaign had linked Cambridge Analytica to the successful effort in 2016 to pull Britain out of the European Union. But the company said in a statement Friday that it did not work on the referendum campaign. 
 
 Democratic lawmakers and Trump critics have seized on Cambridge Analytica's role as they've pushed congressional investigators to scrutinize the Trump campaign's data operation as part of probes into Russia's interference in the 2016 election. But the Trump campaign has played down the firm's involvement. Campaign officials have said they used the company only for a short time for television advertising and paid some of the firm's talented data employees, as the AP previously reported . 
 
 Flynn's previous filing, submitted to the White House and Office of Government Ethics in March, listed at least $1.3 million in earnings, including between $50,000 and $100,000 from his consulting company, Flynn Intel Group Inc. The latest filing lists at least $1.8 million in income. 
 
 Flynn's amended filing comes some six months after he was ousted from the White House for misleading the vice president about conversations he had with the then-Russian ambassador to the U.S. It also comes as Special Counsel Robert Mueller and congressional committees are scrutinizing Flynn's business deals and foreign connections. 
 
 The person close to Flynn said he disclosed the information in an amended filing to make sure the "public record is accurate and transparent." The person noted that Flynn and his legal team have spent months piecing together the information necessary for the filing without the assistance of the White House counsel's office or the Office of Government Ethics. 
 
 In the filing, Flynn reports earning about $28,000 from the Trump presidential transition and more than $5,000 as a consultant to an aborted plan to build nuclear power plants across the Middle East. The consulting connection with a group of companies involved in the power plant proposal had been disclosed in Flynn's previous filing, but it had not indicated that he had received payment. 
 
 Flynn's new filing also provided more details about his consulting work for NJK Holding Corporation, a firm headed by Iranian-American multi-millionaire Nasser Kazeminy. The filing shows that Flynn was paid more than $140,000 for his roles as adviser and consultant to Minneapolis-based NJK. 
 
 Flynn also served as vice chairman at GreenZone Systems, a tech firm funded by NJK and headed by Bijan Kian, who was Flynn's business partner in Flynn Intel. 
 
 In a statement to the AP, NJK said Flynn "played an advisory role to NJK Holding relative to its investment interests in security." The firm added that in his roles with NJK and GreenZone, Flynn "provided his counsel and guidance on public sector business opportunities for secure communications technology within the U.S. Department of Defense" and with other agencies. 
 
 NJK said Kian has no current involvement with NJK or GreenZone. 
 
 Earlier Thursday, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asked Kian for documents detailing Flynn's foreign business contacts and travel. Flynn listed Kian as a personal reference in 2016 during his effort to renew his military security clearance. Kian told military investigators that Flynn had several foreign business contacts, but Flynn did not provide any of those contacts to investigators, Cummings said. 
 
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 Sergei Kislyak, former Russian ambassador to Washington, appears on the Russian 24 channel's 'Press Conference' to deny discussing secrets or sanctions with Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Flynn (Photo: Russia 24) 
 
 Sergey Kislyak, Russia's former ambassador to Washington, denied Saturday that he had discussed secrets or even the issue of sanctions with now-fired Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn in a series of controversial conversations. 
 
 Kislyak's remarks, made in an interview on the Russian 24 channel's "Press Conference" program, are at odds with the circumstances surrounding the firing of Flynn, who was dismissed in February for lying to Vice President Pence in saying he had not discussed sanctions with Kislyak. 
 
 Flynn's firing, after 24 days on the job, followed warnings by acting Attorney General Sally Yates to the new Trump White House team that Flynn was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail regarding phone calls he had with Kislyak during the transition period. 
 
 Kislyak, who completed his nine-year tour as ambassador to Washington in July, said in fact that he had clear instructions from Moscow not to talk about sanctions with the incoming Trump team. 
 
 Former national security adviser Michael Flynn. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP Images) 
 
 "I did not discuss sanctions with anyone, and rest assured that I carried out my instructions honestly," the diplomat said, adding that Moscow "does not bargain for sanctions" because it considers sanctions to be illegal. 
 
 He also described his talks with Flynn as entirely appropriate. "How can it be that a diplomat is forbidden to communicate with representatives of the elected administration? Any diplomat — Russian, not Russian — is working to better understand the policy of the country where he works," he said. 
 
 According to Kislyak, who has been Russia's ambassador to the U.S. since 2008, the two discussed such topics of mutual interest as the fight against terrorism. 
 
 He said they talked about "the simplest things" and there were no secrets from the Russian side. He said the exchange was "absolutely correct, calm, absolutely transparent," according to the Russian news site Vesti.ru. 
 
 The Russian diplomat declined to indicate the form of his conversations with Flynn, including whether they were by phone or in person.. 
 
 "I didn't come here to testify," he told the Russian "Press Conference" panel. "We don't comment on concrete conversations with our interlocutors and leave it for them to decide what they would like to reveal and what not." 
 
 He also denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and denied that the Kremlin supported Trump, saying they were read for any outcome. 
 
 He said that Russia was "fully prepared for both one option and the other." 
 
 The Washington Posthas reported that Kislyak was overheard by U.S. spy agencies telling his bosses he had discussed campaign-related matters, including issues important to Moscow, with now Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race. 
 
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 Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2vC2NYl ||||| Mr. Flynn declined to comment. Ty Cobb, special counsel to Mr. Trump, said, “We’ve said before we’re collaborating with the special counsel on an ongoing basis.” 
 
 “It’s full cooperation mode as far as we are concerned,” he said. 
 
 After Mr. Flynn’s dismissal, Mr. Trump tried to get James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to drop the investigation, Mr. Comey said. 
 
 Mr. Mueller is investigating whether Mr. Trump committed obstruction of justice in pressing for an end to the Flynn inquiry. The president fired Mr. Comey on May 9. 
 
 Investigators are also examining the flow of money into and out of the Flynn Intel Group — a consulting firm Mr. Flynn founded after being forced out as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency — according to several potential witnesses who have been interviewed by prosecutors and F.B.I. agents. 
 
 Taking money from Turkey or any foreign government is not illegal. But failing to register as a foreign agent is a felony, and trying to hide the source of the money by routing it through a private company or some other entity, and then paying kickbacks to the middleman, could lead to numerous criminal charges, including fraud. 
 
 Prosecutors have also asked during interviews about Mr. Flynn’s speaking engagements for Russian companies, for which he was paid more than $65,000 in 2015, and about his company’s clients — including work it may have done with the Japanese government. 
 
 They have also asked about the White Canvas Group, a data-mining company that was reportedly paid $200,000 by the Trump campaign for unspecified services. The Flynn Intel Group shared office space with the White Canvas Group, which was founded by a former Special Operations officer who was a friend of Mr. Flynn’s. 
 
 Mr. Flynn has now had to file three versions of his financial-disclosure forms. His first version did not disclose payments from Russia-linked companies. He added those payments to an amended version of the forms he submitted in March. This week he filed a new version, adding that he briefly had a contract with SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm that worked with the Trump campaign.
– Michael Flynn made a flurry of headlines Friday and Saturday, the most pressing of which was a New York Times report that investigators working for Robert Mueller asked the White House for documents related to the ex-national security adviser. Sources say investigators have also asked witnesses if Flynn was secretly paid by the Turkish government. Flynn's consulting business was paid $530,000 to handle a campaign against an opponent of the Turkish government. If that money actually came from the Turkish government itself, Flynn could face a felony charge for not declaring himself a foreign agent or other charges for trying to hide the source of the money. The document request is one more sign Mueller's team is expanding its investigation beyond Russia to the business dealings of Trump and his team. On Friday, the White House released an updated version of Flynn's financial filing that shows he briefly had an advisory role with Cambridge Analytica, the AP reports. The "controversial" data mining and analysis company helped the Trump campaign during the election. It's unclear what, if anything, Flynn did for the company. According to USA Today, former Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak gave an interview to Russian media Saturday in which he claimed he never discussed sanctions with Flynn, who was fired for lying when he told Vice President Pence the same thing. Kislyak says his conversations with Flynn were "absolutely correct, calm, absolutely transparent" and about "the simplest things."