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Earlier this week, a memo surfaced in Ukraine, allegedly revealing how former Vice President Joe Biden accepted an “unlawful benefit” from his son’s financial ties to local oil and gas producer Burisma.
I am no fan of Joe Biden, but the “memo” needs to be taken with a great big grain of salt. Ukraine is famously corrupt, and such explosive findings need to be met with the same thorough vetting that the so-called “black ledger” implicating former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort should have received.
The Kiev Post writes, “A memo allegedly leaked from the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine shows that prosecutors are accusing [Mr. Biden] of receiving ‘an unlawful benefit’ from former Ukrainian Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky’s Burisma Group, an oil and gas producer.”
The document, the paper reported, also accuses Mr. Zlochevsky of offering Mr. Biden and former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a “share of Burisma Group’s profits” for their help.
So who is behind these big director payoffs payouts? Richard found some bread crumbs that pointed to Burisma being owned by Privat Group, a conglomerate controlled by the Ukrainian oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky.
Along with Boholyubov, Kolomoyskiy is accused of using PrivatBank to lend money to the various companies and entities that they controlled. These funds were then laundered through Delaware, which is known for its corporate-friendly laws, and used to acquire numerous properties in the United States.
PrivatBank accused Kolomoyskiy and Boholyubov of lending money to companies they controlled and later laundering it through Delaware entities to acquire assets in the United States, including property and metals companies.
The two men "used PrivatBank as their own personal piggy bank -- ultimately stealing billions of dollars from PrivatBank and using United States entities to launder hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of PrivatBank's misappropriated loan proceeds into the United States to enrich themselves and their co-conspirators," the lawsuit says.
Joe Biden and John Kerry have been pillars of the Washington establishment for more than 30 years. Biden is one of the most popular politicians in our nation’s capital.
His demeanor, sense of humor, and even his friendly gaffes have allowed him to form close relationships with both Democrats and Republicans. His public image is built around his “Lunch Bucket Joe” persona. As he reminds the American people on regular occasions, he has little wealth to show for his career, despite having reached the vice presidency.
One of his closest political allies in Washington is former senator and former Secretary of State John Kerry. “Lunch Bucket Joe” he ain’t; Kerry is more patrician than earthy. But the two men became close while serving for several decades together in the US Senate. The two “often talked on matters of foreign policy,” says Jules Witcover in his Biden biography.
So their sons going into business together in June 2009 was not exactly a bolt out of the blue.
But with whom their sons cut lucrative deals while the elder two were steering the ship of state is more of a surprise.
Kroll confirms: before nationalisation PrivatBank was subjected to a large scale and coordinated fraud, which resulted in a loss of at least USD 5.5 billion
16 January 2018
Press Release
The results of an independent investigation by the company Kroll have been presented to the National Bank of Ukraine. The investigation has identified that PrivatBank was subjected to a large scale and coordinated fraud over at least a ten-year period ending December 2016, which resulted in the Bank suffering a loss of at least USD 5.5 billion.
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: Deetermined
Excellent research!
Makes one wonder if Barr and Durham have spent some time in Delaware as well..
S&F for the information and the time taken to present it to us.
Revealed: Joe Biden twice used his position as senator to intervene to boost son Hunter's lobbying
originally posted by: smurfy
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: Deetermined
Excellent research!
Makes one wonder if Barr and Durham have spent some time in Delaware as well..
S&F for the information and the time taken to present it to us.
Using material from Gateway Pundit isn't good research.
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: smurfy
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: Deetermined
Excellent research!
Makes one wonder if Barr and Durham have spent some time in Delaware as well..
S&F for the information and the time taken to present it to us.
Using material from Gateway Pundit isn't good research.
It's not like we can wait for the Vox article to help you out sweetheart.
How about attempting a debunk of the OP instead?
Using material from Gateway Pundit isn't good research.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: smurfy
More reliable than WaPo or CNN these days. What exactly are you claiming is false?