Ukrainian Prosecutor Reopens Corruption Case Involving Biden (from Apr 2019)

[Wingnut]

Thought this might be relevant today with all the crap about Trump when it should be all about Joe Biden
This is no skeleton in Uncle Joe’s closet. It’s a raw cadaver, and it stinks to high heaven, despite the mounds of dirt piled on top of it by the national media.

April 8, 2019 Updated: April 12, 2019
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The chief prosecutor in Ukraine recently revealed that he’s reopening a corruption probe into Ukraine’s largest private gas company that could have profound implications for the presidential aspirations of former Vice President Joe Biden.

The company, Burisma Holdings, appointed Biden’s son, Hunter, to its board of directors in 2014, and reportedly paid him more than $3 million during a 14-month period to head its legal team.

Burisma was then facing a state investigation over allegations that company Chairman Nikolai Zlochevskiy had used his official position as Minister of Environment in the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych to award the company lucrative oil and gas permits.

While the probe was underway, then-Vice President Biden made more than a dozen trips to Ukraine, ostensibly to support the new government of Petro Poroshenko. But during one of those trips in 2016, the vice president threatened to withdraw U.S. aid if Poroshenko didn’t fire the prosecutor general in charge of the Burisma probe.

Biden boasted of his success in getting Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in January 2018, a year after leaving office.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukrainian-prosecutor-reopens-corruption-case-involving-biden_2869878.html?fbclid=IwAR2tXKqszXTjsVmn3VFYpVK68FHnnTj9wS3JzbG9BFdMr8hkNIeR3r7jhpg

[Sanguine]

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[libertybele]

This is good news, but all the DEMS now have to say is this is a witch hunt that DJT started against Biden because Biden is polling ahead of Trump and Trump feared loosing the election. They now have an excuse to disregard the Ukranian investigation.

IMHO Trump isn't going to win this one.  The media has determined that he is guilty even before the transcripts came out.  Whether or not he is removed from office is yet to be seen and Trump was foolish to bring any sort of attention to Pence.  Pence may very well  now be who stands between the country being turned over to Pelosi. 

I wouldn't count that scenario out. 

[edpc]

Ukrainian prosecutors say they have tried to get this information to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) since the summer of 2018, fearing it might be evidence of possible violations of U.S. ethics laws. First, they hired a former federal prosecutor to bring the information to the U.S. attorney in New York, who, they say, showed no interest. Then, the Ukrainians reached out to President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story


The district isn’t specified, but most important and high profile cases are handled by SDNY. All of the NY US Attorneys are Trump appointments. Geoffrey Berman was a 2016 campaign donor, former Giuliani law partner, and personally interviewed by the president. Why no interest in the material?

[Sanguine]

I don't know,  Ed, why?

[edpc]

That’s probably a good question for which ever US Attorney it happens to be and he’ll likely be asked.