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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTPM: A bit more about Ukraine & the husband and wife team of Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing.
As I noted yesterday, material that has been surfacing from The Hills opinion reporter John Solomon and then echoed by Giuliani seems to originate with one of Ukraines richest and most powerful oligarchs who is a former business partner of Paul Manafort and had to flee Ukraine after the overthrow of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. He is in Austria, fighting extradition to the United States to face bribery charges.
His name is Dimtry Firtash.
Viktor Shokin is the fired prosecutor at the center of all these stories. As part of Firtashs effort to avoid extradition from Austria to the United States, he asked Shokin to swear out the affidavit in which Shokin accuses Biden of getting him fired to protect his son Hunter. (There is no evidence any of this happened. There was no investigation of Hunter Biden or the company on whose board he sat at the time Shokin was fired.)
So to review, former Manafort business partner Firtash asks Shokin to swear out an affidavit in which he accuses Biden. The affidavit quickly gets into the hands of Giuliani and Solomon. And who just recently went to work for Firtashs legal team? None other than diGenova and Toensing, as reported just this week by the Kyiv Post and other publications.
So the duo who we now learned has been working on behalf of the President with Rudy Giuliani to extort the Ukrainian government just signed on to represent the oligarch behind the affidavit in which the disgraced prosecutor says Joe Biden got him fired. And yes, the oligarch who got booted from Ukraine in 2014 and is a former business partner of Paul Manafort.
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dem4decades
(11,304 posts)Then he can get 1 day.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,641 posts)Good on Mr. Marshall. Another indictment to pursue.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)The truth is much much worse. Theres lots we dont know, yet. Theres plenty to put the Trumps away. For good.
Midnight Writer
(21,803 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,659 posts)They are ratf*ckers extraordinaire...