On April 22, 2014, Archer joins the board of directors of the Burisma Holdings, the largest private producer of gas in Ukraine.
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That same month in 2014, pro-Russian separatists took control in the Donbass, an eastern region of Ukraine that borders Russia. web.archive.org/web/2014041412…
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As the separatist movement advanced westward, its advance was abruptly cut short at the Dnipropetrovsk region due primarily to the efforts of billionaire banker Ihor Kolomoisky.
This article which first appeared in the Wall Street Journal goes in great detail describing Kolomoisky’s efforts to stamp out anti-Maidan resistance in his region.
Leiter's firm was “working with Burisma to educate US officials about the company and its role in creating a stable and secure energy future for Ukraine, not any specific policy or legislation.”
Burisma was created in 2006 when Mykola Zlochevsky registered the company in Cyprus.
Zlochevsky, a government minister at the time, granted the license to Ukrainian natural gas field, Sakhalinksa, to a company with connections to Burisma.
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In April 2014, the month Hunter Biden joined the firm, British officials froze $23 million in London Bank accounts supposedly belonging to Zlochevsky.
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office later dropped the charges when Ukrainian prosecutors refused to cooperate. The money was freed and eventually moved to Cyprus.
Privat Group controlled the nation’s largest commercial bank, PrivatBank.
Privat was controlled by…. Igor Kolomoisky.
(REAL LIVE SHARKS...IN HIS OFFICE! 🦈😨)
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A mere 9 months later, PrivatBank had blown through $1.8 billion.
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Alexander Cockburn covers in great detail the financial shenanigans that made the money disappear in a maze of offshore accounts in Cyprus, Belize and the British Virgin Islands.
Due to his questionable business practices, Kolomosiky was placed on the US government’s visa ban list.
Though, mysteriously, the ban would be lifted after Archer and Biden joined the board. 🤨
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In June of last year, a jury found Devon Archer, along with two co-defendants, guilty in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe through the issuance of $60 million in tribal bonds.
The judge, however, overturned Archer’s conviction, but not the verdicts of the other two men (of course, not. lol).
Archer is slated for a new trial.
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Peter Schweizer could not uncover how much money Biden made for his work with Burisma. Ukrainian disclosure laws do not require that Biden’s reveal his compensation.
(Schweizer's book is worth the money just for his section on the Bidens alone.)
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The month before Biden made his final trip to Ukraine, all investigations of Burisma were closed.
On Biden’s last day as Vice President, Jan 19, 2017, Burisma and the Atlantic Council sign a cooperative agreement to “develop transatlantic programs with Burisma’s support, focusing on European and international energy security…”
TRUMP/RUSSIA COLLUSION HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE A HOAX.... AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED
Watch this video, all of it.
(note the date)
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So in this video from April 2016, we hear words that have become ubiquitous over the last 5 years: "Russian aggression," "disinformation" and, of course, "Ukraine."
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This event was hosted by the Institute of World Politics.
The school was founded in 1990 by Jon Lenczowski (the man on the right in the video).
He was Director of European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council for 4 years in the Reagan White House.
Cruz allowed Mueller/Weissmann to accuse the Trump campaign of trying to obtain Hillary's emails when it was a member of his campaign leading the effort.
The accusations are so lurid and so over the top that they feel off to me.
It reads as if it was constructed in response or in conjunction with the release of the Access Hollywood tape, the infamous recording of a lewd conversation between Donald Trump and a reporter.
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Shearer's memo emphasizes Trump's mistreatment of women.
"This guy has mental issues with women."
"He is a psychopath. He likes to make the women scream."
Someone in a DM pointed out to me an interesting discrepancy between the Simpson/Steele version of the timeline and the Danchenko indictment.
So I did some digging and here's what I found.
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According to Glenn Simpson's & Peter Fritsch's book, Crime in Progress, Marc Elias first met with them on April 20, 2016, the day after Donald Trump won the New York primary.
He loved their pitch and agreed to contract with them, but formalizing the agreement took "weeks."
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Next: "By the time Fusion decided to turn to Christopher Steele in May 2016, the firm had amassed a mountain of research about Trump's business past..."