Confirmation that this entire scheme is a Russian mob disinformation campaign

[kpete]

Last edited Tue Oct 15, 2019, 09:26 PM - Edit history (1)

@VeraMBergen

NEW: In their effort to discredit Trump’s perceived enemies, the president's close allies received key documents and information from a Ukrainian oligarch wanted in the US on corruption charges, five people directly involved tell TIME https://time.com/5699201/exclusive-how-a-ukrainian-oligarch-wanted-by-u-s-authorities-helped-giuliani-attack-biden/ … via @shustry

Link to tweet

https://time.com/5699201/exclusive-how-a-ukrainian-oligarch-wanted-by-u-s-authorities-helped-giuliani-attack-biden/


Over the last two months, a TIME investigation has traced some of Giuliani’s claims about Biden and Mueller to a troubling relationship, one in which a foreigner wanted by the U.S. government on corruption charges has taken steps, as part of his own legal strategy, that are helping the American President attack his most prominent critics.

The information came from the legal team of Dmitry Firtash, a wealthy industrialist with assets across Europe, who has spent the last five years in Vienna fighting extradition to the U.S. on bribery and racketeering charges. The U.S. Department of Justice said in 2017 he was among the “upper echelon associates of Russian organized crime”—something Firtash vigorously denies, along with all charges against him.

As part of his legal defense, Firtash’s lawyers have gathered documents that make controversial allegations against former special counsel Robert Mueller and former Vice President Joe Biden. Firtash’s lawyers have passed these documents and other information to associates of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

In his frequent appearances on cable news, Giuliani has presented some of these documents to the American public as evidence for his claims of wrongdoing by Mueller and Biden. The key document is an affidavit from a former Ukrainian prosecutor who accuses Biden of corruption. “The witness I’m relying on,” Giuliani told Fox News on Oct. 6, was the prosecutor Viktor Shokin. “That’s the affidavit I put out,” Giuliani added. He did not mention that the affidavit was obtained by the Firtash legal team. At the beginning of the document, Shokin writes that he is making the statement “at the request of lawyers acting for Dmitry Firtash.”

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for visibility...nt

[applegrove]

2. Then they have Kompromat on Trump and his allies.

[mucifer]

3. Holy Sh-t!!!!!

[dalton99a]

4. Great article.

https://time.com/5699201/exclusive-how-a-ukrainian-oligarch-wanted-by-u-s-authorities-helped-giuliani-attack-biden/

Exclusive: How a Ukrainian Oligarch Wanted by U.S. Authorities Helped Giuliani Attack Biden
By Simon Shuster
October 15, 2019

In their effort to discredit President Donald Trump’s perceived enemies, close allies of the President have received key documents and information from a Ukrainian oligarch wanted in the U.S. on corruption charges, according to five people directly involved in this effort and two other people familiar with it.

The information came from the legal team of Dmitry Firtash, a wealthy industrialist with assets across Europe, who has spent the last five years in Vienna fighting extradition to the U.S. on bribery and racketeering charges. The U.S. Department of Justice said in 2017 he was among the “upper echelon associates of Russian organized crime”—something Firtash vigorously denies, along with all charges against him.

As part of his legal defense, Firtash’s lawyers have gathered documents that make controversial allegations against former special counsel Robert Mueller and former Vice President Joe Biden. Firtash’s lawyers have passed these documents and other information to associates of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

In his frequent appearances on cable news, Giuliani has presented some of these documents to the American public as evidence for his claims of wrongdoing by Mueller and Biden. The key document is an affidavit from a former Ukrainian prosecutor who accuses Biden of corruption. “The witness I’m relying on,” Giuliani told Fox News on Oct. 6, was the prosecutor Viktor Shokin. “That’s the affidavit I put out,” Giuliani added. He did not mention that the affidavit was obtained by the Firtash legal team. At the beginning of the document, Shokin writes that he is making the statement “at the request of lawyers acting for Dmitry Firtash.”

[TheRealNorth]

5. Wasn't the Ghoul supposed to fly to Vienna?

Why yes, he was supposed to go, before Lev and Igor got detained before their flights to Vienna

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/rudy-giuliani-vienna/599833/

[empedocles]

6. ' . . . befor lev and igor got detained . . . '

[orangecrush]

7. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Somehow our legal system grinds on

despite Trump and Barr and Mulvaney and Guiliani and Mnuchin and Pompeo and McConnell and all the rest of the GOP who appear to be sworn or compromised into silence.

I like our chances, but there are some Big Fish to fry and displacing them seems uncertain at best.

This has been a plot several decades in the making in my view.

[SergeStorms]

9. I think Rachel Maddow covered this last week.

It was as jaw-dropping then as it is now.

[certainot]

10. i'll bet most or all of it got blasted out by trump buddy limnbaugh before anyone ever saw it on tv

as they've done with every other bullshit they've sold the last 30 years

[Hekate]

11. KnR