Impeachment inquiry puts new focus on Giuliani's work for prominent figures in Ukraine

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Source: Washington Post

The hunt by President Trump’s attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani for material in Ukraine damaging to Democrats has put a spotlight on business ties he has had in the former Soviet republic for at least a decade, work that has introduced him to high-level Ukrainian financial and political circles.

Giuliani has said he has been working for free solely to benefit his client, Trump, as he has sought information from Ukrainian officials — an effort that has spurred a House impeachment inquiry into whether the president abused his power. However, House investigators are now seeking records about Giuliani’s past clientele in Ukraine, including Pavel Fuks, a wealthy developer who financed consulting work Giuliani did in 2017 for the city of Kharkiv. That same year, according to court filings, Fuks said he was banned from entering the United States for five years. The documents do not specify why.

House committees have also requested documents and depositions from two of Giuliani’s current clients, Florida-based businessmen who have been pursuing opportunities in Ukraine for a new liquefied natural gas venture. The men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, have been assisting Giuliani’s push to get Ukrainian officials to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son and Giuliani’s claim that Democrats conspired with Ukrainians in the 2016 campaign.

The drama roiling Washington has intensified scrutiny of Giuliani’s private work as a lawyer and consultant around the globe and his unorthodox decision to continue to represent clients with foreign interests while serving as the president’s personal lawyer. How Giuliani navigates between the needs of his foreign clients and those of the president is unclear. The former New York mayor, whose private security and consulting firm does not disclose its clients, has never registered as a foreign lobbyist, saying he does not do work that would require such filings.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/impeachment-inquiry-puts-new-focus-on-giulianis-work-for-prominent-figures-in-ukraine/2019/10/01/b3c6d08c-e089-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

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His shtick has been all projection.

[jmbar2]

1. Biden story was just a diversion from real story - Trump lets Putin have Ukraine.

The "peace deal" between Ukrainian government and pro Russia rebels in Donbas is what Putin wanted. He now has control over Europe's natural gas supplies, AND "resolution" of the Ukrainian problem may pave the way to reverse sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine in the first place. Basically a two-fer

Trump alluded to this in his interview with Zelensky at the White House when he said that he "hoped" Zelensky would work things out with Russia soon. He did.

The Biden story was just to distract attention from what Trump and Putin were up to.

Link to tweet

[ConnieAZ1]

3. you have nailed it

looks like a russian duck, talks like a russian duck, walks like a russian duck....guess what it is.

[Talitha]

2. Makes me wonder if Putin 'arranged' to have Zelensky win the election

in the first place - to unlock the door for all of this to happen, you know?
Poor Zelensky just got steamrolled by a couple of professional thugs.

[ConnieAZ1]

4. you have nailed it

i do believe you are correct. i worry about zelensky's fate. i think he has been had.