Rudy Giuliani Has Curious Links to a Jewish Village in Ukraine
Stephanie Baker and Daryna Krasnolutska
Bloomberg27 November 2019
(Bloomberg) -- It doesn’t look like much: a muddy site roughly four football fields long with a dozen buildings, some half-finished, on the grim outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. But Anatevka, as it’s named to invoke the Jewish shtetl in the musical “Fiddler on the Roof,†has at least a walk-on role in the Donald Trump impeachment drama.
Anatevka’s honorary mayor is Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s Ukraine point man, and its fundraisers include Giuliani’s two associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who’ve been indicted for funneling foreign money into U.S. political campaigns.
The questions hanging over Anatevka are whether it is what its sponsors claim -- a refuge for Jews driven from eastern Ukraine by the Russian-backed separatist war -– and what role, if any, it played as Giuliani, Parnas and Fruman sought to persuade Ukrainian officials to investigate Trump’s political opponents in the U.S.
The mystery begins with the residents. Only about 20 are Jews who fled the east, and they live in three small apartment blocks, according to two residents who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. The project’s leaders say more than 100 people live in the village; residents put the number at closer to 65, the majority Jews from nearby Kyiv, they say. A large dormitory for those displaced by the war stands empty. About 200 children attend three well-equipped schools, most bused in daily from Kyiv and nearby villages, some paying tuition.
Guards in Camouflage
Visitors are kept at arm’s length by guards in gray camouflage. The village’s founder, Rabbi Moshe Azman, declined repeated requests for comment.
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-curious-links-jewish-090000801.htmWell I know its Bloomberg, but its easy to see what Trump was talking about with Rudy ties to Ukraine. But Trump just said he didn't order Rudy to push for investigations even though he had already said he did.
Can't make this stuff up.
