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The other case raised at the January 2016 meeting, Telizhenko said, involved Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation in Ukraine for improper foreign transfers of money. At the time, Burisma allegedly was paying then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as both a board member and a consultant. More than $3 million flowed from Ukraine to an American firm tied to Hunter Biden in 2014-15, bank records show.
According to Telizhenko, U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Burisma probe and allow the FBI to take it over. The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Ukraine’s chief prosecutor in March 2016, as I previously reported. The Burisma case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.
The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington on Thursday confirmed the Obama administration requested the meetings in January 2016, but embassy representatives attended only some of the sessions.
originally posted by: Deetermined
a reply to: Gryphon66
It's not opinion when Solomon keeps video and audio recordings of his interviews, including one of the Ukraine prosecutor who says that Maria Yanovich gave him a list of people NOT to prosecute when he first came into office.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: Deetermined
a reply to: Gryphon66
It's not opinion when Solomon keeps video and audio recordings of his interviews, including one of the Ukraine prosecutor who says that Maria Yanovich gave him a list of people NOT to prosecute when he first came into office.
Really? So all that has to happen for something to be factual news is that notes are kept?
Sure, okay.
Really? So all that has to happen for something to be factual news is that notes are kept?
Sure, okay.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Look guys, I can’t watch you all do this to yourselves again honestly.
Note the differences between the news conference that Ryaboshapka held and the Interfax video that was posted.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: Deetermined
a reply to: Gryphon66
It's not opinion when Solomon keeps video and audio recordings of his interviews, including one of the Ukraine prosecutor who says that Maria Yanovich gave him a list of people NOT to prosecute when he first came into office.
Really? So all that has to happen for something to be factual news is that notes are kept?
Sure, okay.
It is an investigation into corruption in Ukraine?
Like potus asked about?
Almost as if he knew it was going on?
Nice of the house dems to HIGHLIGHT it in the most public of ways, wasn't it?
Yanukovich was not the first Ukrainian politician to engage in corruption, but he was certainly the best at it. In fact, the word corruption is a misleading one for Ukraine, since it implies a dishonest cancer afflicting an otherwise healthy organism, whereas in this case it was the other way round. Corruption was the system, and it metastasised into any parts of the state apparatus that remained healthy.
In the three years after Yanukovich took office in 2010, Ukraine slipped from an already disastrous 134th on Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index down to 144th – putting it level with countries such as the Central African Republic and Nigeria, which are synonymous with shadiness and mismanagement. But the financial damage that Yanukovich and his predecessors did to Ukraine is hard to measure in simple numbers. At the time of its independence in 1991, Ukraine’s economy was almost as large as Poland’s; now, it is a third of the size.