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some notes on Senate majority staff report on Hunter Biden as I read it. hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

Elizabeth Zentos was co-host (with Eric Ciaramella) of Jan 19, 2016 meeting with Ukrainian prosecutors. She insolently refused to identify her superiors or her subordinates, either at NSC or State Dept. Insolence of bureaucracy to Republicans is quite astounding.

3/ Zentos even refused to confirm that "Eric" in March 4, 2016 email was Eric Ciaramella, her co-host of Jan 19, 2016 meeting with Ukrainians.

4/ Senate committee referred to Jan 19, 2016 meeting hosted by Zentos and Ciaramella, citing email correspondence and itinerary, but unaccountably failed to consult Obama WH visitor logs (discussed in this corner of twitter long ago).

5/ other attendees at Jan 19, 2016 meeting, besides those named in Senate report, included Jeffrey Cole, Catherine Newcombe, Anna Iemelianova and Svitlana Pardus.

6/ Senate report failed to mention or discuss a Jan 28, 2016 email from Deputy Secretary State Tony Blinken's office about Hunter Biden. Blinken is a Joe Biden operative and in present campaign.

7/ Senate Report begins discussion of Blue Star Strategies (p 42) in March 2016. They described Blue Star as "Democrat", but didn't mention that Tramontano was former Bill Clinton COS. Didn't mention her Feb 24 email to U/S State Novelli

8/ they cite a Mar 21, 2016 email from Blue Star to Hochstein (omitted in original FOIA), one day prior to Joe Biden demand for Shokin dismissal, asking for meeting on "sensitive energy matter" prior to Poroshenko visit [on Mar 31]

9/ a new detail: on Mar 22, Tramontano and Painter met with Oksana Shulyar at Ukraine Embassy and discussed Burisma.

10/ they didn't discuss Shulyar any further. Shulyar is shown in Apelbaum's opus as being "handled" by notorious Democrat operative Alexandra Chalupa and close to Melanie Verveer apelbaum.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/the…

10/ another new detail: after Mar 22 meeting, Blue Star asked Ukraine Embassy at 6:06 pm to help set up meeting with Prosecutor General on April 6. Same day as Biden was demanding firing of Shokin.

11/ in exchange, the Democrat fixers at Blue Star offered their influence with Obama admin in arranging meetings, up to an including Obama chief of staff McDonough

12/ Senate report didn't follow up on Lozhin. Lozhin's June 2016 visit to US was discussed by Cyber-Berkut, where he was supposedly given documents by Glenn Simpson on Manafort via Evan Ryan of State Dept (Biden operative Tony Blinken's wife) web.archive.org/web/2016111918…

13/ Senate report didn't analyse Oksana Shulyar's visits to White House, which included visits to Vice President Biden staffer Carpenter, Zentos and Biden himself.

14/ another new detail: on Mar 24, Blue Star operatives met with Hochstein at State Dept and, inter alia, discussed their Dec 2015 meeting with ambassador Pyatt

15/ there are many interesting new details in Senate report on Biden transactions outside Ukraine, but I'll continue here on Ukraine chronology, about which I've written previously.

16/ Senate reports numerous, previously unknown out-of-office meetings between Zentos (+sometimes Ciaramella) and Ukrainian embassy's Telizhenko: Feb 9, 23; Mar 4, 10, Apr 13, May 4, all in Washington. Jul 9 in Ukraine. By July, Blue Star had hired Telizhenko.

17/ In June, Ukraine embassy employee Telizhenko had advised Blue Star on how to get meeting with new Prosecutor General. (Buretta's May 21 request had got nowhere.) In July, Telizhenko got contract from Blue Star.

18/ Blue Star later told WSJ that they had never paid off a Ukraine embassy employee while he was an embassy employee. However, with, so to speak, military timing, Telizhenko went directly from embassy employee to Blue Star contractor. A quid pro Joe, I guess.

19/ digressing from Ukraine, startling new revelations of other payoffs. On Feb 14, 2014, at height of Maidan regime change coup under Joe Biden's direction, Elena Baturina, a Russian oligarch, paid $3.5 million to firm owned by Kerry's stepson and Hunter Biden for "consulting".

20/ in 2015, Baturina sent another nearly $400,000 to the Hunter Biden-Kerry stepson firm.

21/ on Apr 22, 2014, as Joe Biden was becoming US viceroy in Ukraine, Kenges Rakishev, a Kazakh businessman, wired $142,300 to the Hunter Biden-Kerry stepson company "for a car". (Bill's help in embezzlement of Kazakh uranium was source of huge "donation" to Clinton Foundation.)

22/ Hunter Biden's Chinese connections are discussed at length hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… and too lengthy to briefly summarize. This caught my eye: $5 million in fees paid by Chinese company to Hunter's law firm in 2017-18.

23/ John Solomon has new article on Hunter Biden justthenews.com/accountability…

24/ Solomon observed that Biden's partner, Kerry protege and fellow Burisma director Devon Archer, claimed that Russian oligarch Butarina had invested over $200 million in Archer's investment funds. justthenews.com/sites/default/…

25/ back to Ukraine chronology: in previous release justthenews.com/sites/default/… on August 29, 2016, Telizhenko, as employee of Ukraine embassy, was arranging visit of former Ukraine Prosecutor General Yarema to Washington. Senate report says contract with Blue Star began in Jul 2016

26/ in same Kent correspondence, on Jan 13, 2017, Kent told Yovanovitch that Blue Star fixers Tramontano, Painter on "Atlantic Council roster" and that Atlantic Council's Ukraine program being funded by Burisma and oligarchs Pinchuk, Akhmetov

27/ @willchamberlain has excellent commentary on payment of $6 million to Hunter Biden from crooked Chinese oligarch. Will thinks that it may be bank fraud.

Will also points out that this is all brand new information.