Gary Johnson said:
I'm not a dem or Hillary lover. Trump "took millions" from China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, you can do this all day. Every listed company on the DOW "took millions" from foreigners. Not a crime unless there's a crime.
Agnzona said:
If Trump got money it's for ligit business deals if Dems got money it's for influence peddling.
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You are a damn liar
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You claim he is currently being impeached for "bribery" in Ukraine.
Gary Johnson said:
How much has he taken from Ukrainian companies and nationals? I don't know do you? His various businesses are still involved with China, Russia, Saudi, UAE, and various tax havens. So what?
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"I would love to hear from Hunter Biden," said Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, on "Fox News Sunday." Hurd, a moderate who has been critical of Trump, said the impeachment inquiry "has been a partisan exercise from the very beginning" and that in past impeachment proceedings the minority had been allowed to call its own witnesses.
Know your role and stay in your lane!78_Pacecar said:
It's 7:27 AM CST on November 12, 2019 and Donald J. Trump is STILL the POTUS...
and Jeffrey Epstein STILL didn't kill himself.
I've wanted to post this for weeks, but never get on early enough!
captkirk said:
Hurd needs to talk with Gary Johnson. He'll clear it all up. Doesn't Hurd understand that potential scandal has been "debunked"
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for example, in the case of former Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky, the U.K. authorities had seized 23 million dollars in illicit assets that belonged to the Ukrainian people. Officials at the PGO's office were asked by the U.K to send documents supporting the seizure. Instead they sent letters to Zlochevsky's attorneys attesting that there was no case against him. As a result the money was freed by the U.K. court and shortly thereafter the money was moved to Cyprus.
That problem threatens everything that the Rada, the Cabinet, the National Reform Council, and. others are doing to push political and economic reforms forward and make life better for Ukrainians, and it flies in the face of what the Revolution of Dignity is trying to achieve. That obstacle is the failure of the institution of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine to successfully fight internal corruption.
That made me LOL irl.Spotted Ag said:Know your role and stay in your lane!78_Pacecar said:
It's 7:27 AM CST on November 12, 2019 and Donald J. Trump is STILL the POTUS...
and Jeffrey Epstein STILL didn't kill himself.
I've wanted to post this for weeks, but never get on early enough!
Me too. mea culpa mea maxima culpaPrognightmare said:That made me LOL irl.Spotted Ag said:Know your role and stay in your lane!78_Pacecar said:
It's 7:27 AM CST on November 12, 2019 and Donald J. Trump is STILL the POTUS...
and Jeffrey Epstein STILL didn't kill himself.
I've wanted to post this for weeks, but never get on early enough!
aggiehawg said:
He was happy with Shokin a few months later.
Interesting thread here with docs.
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Shokin's representatives lobbied the commission to nominate Hovda, although civil society strongly resisted and prevailed. Critics regarded him as a defender of the old system and a Shokin protge. In fact, sacking Shokin has been a major demand of civil society for months.
"Kholodnytsky will be judged by his results," Vitaly Shabunin, a member of the commission and head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center's management board,
Gary Johnson said:Quote:
You claim he is currently being impeached for "bribery" in Ukraine.
Citation needed.
aggie2812-2 said:
Wait....you're stating something as fact but yet can't say how much he's made? Come man, if your going to argue a point have the facts to back it up. Now you just look silly and make yourself look like one of those losers who just cry's about made up crap. Bring the facts.
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Would you agree that Biden extorted Ukraine to fire a prosecutor using IMF loans? Do you also agree that this is legal?
So all of that predated Shokin who was not appointed until February 2015.Quote:
In 2014-2015, the prosecutor's office, managed by then Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema, assisted Zlochevsky with unblocking $23.5 million seized in the U.K.
In April 2014, British law enforcement officers opened a case into possible $35 million money laundering allegedly committed by Zlochevsky. The Ukrainian party became aware of this in late July 2014.
However, instead of providing maximum support and evidence for British investigation, the
PGO issued two controversial letters to Zlochevsky's defense party claiming "uncertain legal status and absence of notification of suspicion of Mykola Zlochevsky." In t he meantime, the British law enforcers received just a partial response on their inquiry.
The PGO announced charges to Zlochevsky only in December 2014, but this was too late. The London court decided to unblock the seized assets, as the Prosecutor General's Office failed to provide evidence on illicit origin of $23.5 million on the accounts of Zlochevsky's companies.
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In the course of the abovementioned investigation, on Dec. 29, 2014, Zlochevsky was notified of charges in illicit enrichment in large-scale and money laundering. To investigate this case, Ukrainian investigators had to establish the origin and legitimacy of significant funds on bank accounts of companies belonging to Zlochevskyi as a former top official.
However, despite considerable public attention, the illicit enrichment of Zlochevskiy was never properly investigated and sent to the court in two years the investigation mystically transformed into the case of tax evasion by chief accountant of one the Burisma holding companies. This was done under the Yuriy Lutsenko's leadership at the PGO.
In the same criminal proceeding into alleged illicit enrichment, in October 2016, PGO investigators asked the State Fiscal Service to hold an unscheduled tax audit of Esko-Pivnich LLC, one of the companies of Burisma holding. The audit concerned the period of 8 months of 2016 and established some violations. As a result, the chief accountant of the company was declared a scapegoat and notified of suspicion of tax evasion.
The accountant paid outstanding taxes as prescribed by the audit, thus eliminating the grounds for criminal charges in tax evasion. The amount paid by accountant constituted 50 million UAH (approx. $1.9 mln), which was only a fraction of alleged evasion.
However, this resulted also in closure in November 2016 of the criminal proceedings regarding possible illicit enrichment and money laundering allegedly committed by Zlochevsky. Available information shows no logic in the actions of PGO investigators who combined the episode of company's tax evasion in 2016 with the criminal proceedings on illicit enrichment and money laundering allegedly committed by Zlochevskyi in 2010-2014.
Please note I quoting in sequence with how the article was written. There is much jumping back and forth between timelines covering three separate PGOs. Yarema, Shokin and Lutshenko.Quote:
Since May 7, 2014, PGO was investigating alleged criminal activity of Ukrainian subsidiaries of Burisma, which in conspiracy with state-owned enterprise Ukrgasvydobuvannya caused substantive loses to Ukrainian budget. Burisma subsidiaries were suspected of extracting and selling gas in Ukraine for significantly discounted prices to related companies to reduce official profits, which according to the agreements on joint activity had to be shared with the state-owned company.
On July 7, 2016, Lutsenko personally held a press briefing and accused Burisma subsidiaries of conspiracy and tax evasion amounting to Hr 1 billion ($70 million) during 2014-2015.
Strangely enough, starting from October 2016 the criminal investigation abruptly stopped mentioning subsidiaries of Burisma. Thus, the company was cleared even without closing criminal investigation.
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Solomon admitted that he had used Lev Parnas to arrange his interviews and serve as his translator. Solomon also sent his work in draft form to Parnas apparently for vetting. Parnas, along with his associate Igor Fruman, worked closely with Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, on the Ukraine intrigues, and were reportedly trying to alter the management of Naftogaz, a Ukrainian gas and oil company, to obtain lucrative contracts. Parnas paid Giuliani $500,000 for consulting on his company called Fraud Guarantee while Firtash paid Parnas through DiGenova and Toensing as "a translator."
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With this pressure mounting, Parliament on Tuesday voted by a comfortable margin to remove Mr. Shokin.
In the final hours before Parliament voted him out, Mr. Shokin had fired his reform-minded deputy prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze, with whom he had been feuding. It was not immediately clear whether that firing would remain in force.
With the prosecutor's office in turmoil throughout Ukraine on Tuesday, one of Mr. Sakvarelidze's appointees in the Odessa regional office was arrested by military prosecutors, assumed to be loyal to Mr. Shokin.
Foreign donors had complained about rot in the prosecutor's office, not least because much of the money suspected of being stolen was theirs.
In one high-profile example, known in Ukraine as the case of the "diamond prosecutors," troves of diamonds, cash and other valuables were found in the homes of two of Mr. Shokin's subordinates, suggesting that they had been taking bribes.
But the case became bogged down, with no reasons given. When a department in Mr. Shokin's office tried to bring it to trial, the prosecutors were fired or resigned. The perpetrators seemed destined to get off with claims that the stones were not worth very much.
For many Ukrainians, the case encapsulated a failure to follow through on the sweeping promises made during the heady days of the revolution to root out corruption and establish a modern, transparent state. Instead, there has seemed to be a return to business-as-usual horse-trading and compromise among the tightly knit Ukrainian oligarchic and business elite.
Since his appointment a year ago, Mr. Shokin had been criticized for not prosecuting officials, businessmen and members of Parliament for their roles in corrupt schemes during the government of former President Viktor F. Yanukovych. He also did not press cases for sniping by the police and opposition activists during the street protests in 2014 that killed more than 100 people and wounded about 1,000.
No doubt. In this photo, General Petraeus apparently is trying to:captkirk said:
Clearly Trump should have more fully investigated her resume
The Trump administration's vetting process of executive branch appointees chosen by the Trump Administration has been near-nonexistent from day one. MetoliusAg said:No doubt. In this photo, General Petraeus apparently is trying to:captkirk said:
Clearly Trump should have more fully investigated her resume
Exactly. She mischaracterized her high cheekbones as indian cheekbones. Everyone knows that only indian based high cheekbones matters at Harvard!BuddysBud said:MetoliusAg said:
The Best People, exhibit 898:
For grifters, grafters, and fraudsters, the opportunities from being associated with Trump is a siren call they can't resist.
Warren therefore should be removed from office for embellishing her resume?
