Ukrainian Oligarch Scrutinized by Robert Mueller Was a Giuliani Client

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Source: Mother Jones

A Russian Ukrainian mogul who has drawn scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller has a business connection to one of the lead lawyers representing Donald Trump in the Russia investigation: former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani told Mother Jones that Pavel Fuks, an oil and real estate magnate, hired his security firm, Giuliani Security & Safety, in 2017 to advise Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million in Ukraine. "He was [a] sponsor of a preliminary study that my firm did of security and emergency management in Kharkiv and some on advice on a planned Holocaust Memorial," Giuliani said in a text message. However, a Ukrainian magazine, Novoye Vremya, reported last year that Fuks said he retained Giuliani to "create a U.S. office for supporting investment in" Kharkiv. When asked about Fuks' claim, Giuliani said, "I have no knowledge of that." He said he did not do any work in the United States for Fuks or Kharkiv.

In November 2017, Giuliani traveled to Kharkiv, located near the Russian border in eastern Ukraine, in connection with the work. That year, he was also photographed with Fuks in New York. But the former mayor minimized their connection, saying that his personal involvement in the project ended in December 2017 and that his firm has no continuing relationship with Fuks.

Giuliani declined to say how much Fuks paid his firm but noted it was "well in line with similar projects all over the world." He said his work for Fuks does not come "anywhere near a conflict" with his current work for Trump. But the connection highlights the complications caused by Giuliani's work for international clients, among them autocrats and allegedly corrupt officials, as he represents the president.

Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/ukrainian-oligarch-pavel-fuks-scrutinized-by-robert-mueller-was-rudy-giuliani-client/

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Pavel Fuks is a name I haven't heard of before. Anyone here familiar with him?

It's going to be fun watching TV analysts trying to pronounce his last name.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. ...

[2naSalit]

2. Kind of helos explain

ghouliani's fevered pitch of late, he's going down too.

[PatSeg]

11. Yes

It does paint a bigger picture of what is going on with him. It seems a lot of republicans have been borderline hysterical lately.

[pecosbob]

3. So Rudy helped to illegally funnel money into Trump's campaign through the inaugural

Looks like you better lawyer up, buttercup...

[poli-junkie]

8. Tasty number -- love The Specials!

especially the trombone solo in Ghost Town

[Leghorn21]

4. Nope, my brain is out of room, I have never heard of a "Pavel Fuks", no do I have enough

space to store him!!

Thanks mom, good to know this, at any rate!

[UpInArms]

7. See my post right after yours ...

Interesting information

[UpInArms]

5. Fuks was in on the Moscow Tower

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/ukraine-donald-trump-inauguration.html

Another prominent businessman who had worked with Mr. Trump years earlier to try to erect a Trump building in Moscow, the Ukrainian-Russian developer Pavel Fuks, also was in Washington for the inauguration.

Mr. Fuks, who has since fallen out of favor in Moscow and was placed under sanctions by the Kremlin, stayed at Trump International Hotel, and spent time with Vitaliy Khomutynnik, a businessman and parliamentarian who had been a member of the Russia-aligned party for which Mr. Manafort worked. Mr. Fuks and Mr. Khomutynnik talked with Representatives Kevin McCarthy and Ed Royce, both influential California Republicans at the time.

Mr. Khomutynnik’s party posted photos of him with the congressmen on Facebook, and suggested that he extracted assurances that American-Ukrainian relations would grow stronger under Mr. Trump, without detailing any specific policy discussions.

Mr. McCarthy’s office said that the encounter was random, and that the conversation was brief and perfunctory, and noted that Mr. McCarthy has supported sanctions against Russia.

[bikeboy]

9. Fuks was in on the Moscow Tower

Ghouilianis pavel's bell must be ring! Fuk!

[Leghorn21]

10. Ohhhh, FUN!!

Many thanks, Arms!!

[Judi Lynn]

6. Also spelled "Pavel Fuchs", in some places, according to AFP.

When he's with Trump, please refer to him as "Pavel Fuchs" to keep Trump from making childish comments:







Sometime Pavel's sense of manliness almost gets the better of Pavel!

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As a complete man, Pavel also has his intellectual side:



Rudy really takes the cake, doesn't he?







Putin's not going to forget getting cheated on this handshake for a long, LONG time!

[Firestorm49]

12. Man Oh Man

This shit just gets crazier by the day. Deny, deny, deny until your ass is hanging out on the line. You have to admit though, all of this crap is an eye opener as to how Washington really works and how little we know about how big decisions are made. Scary stuff indeed. I guess that television shows like Scandal and House of Cards are more true to fact than we think.