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Bloomberg today: As a result of publicity Giuliani generated...2ppl said the odds of DOJ dropping the case against Firtash have plummeted
“because it would look like a quid pro quo. Others connected to the case agreed.” bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…
NYT piece seems thru the looking glass version of same development: Giuliani+ effort to lobby DOJ to drop Firtash case set back by publicity
Giuliani told NYT he &other defense lawyers met w/head of DOJ criminal division & fraud section attorneys. from DOJ firtash indictment rls
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Laura Rozen
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“One person familiar with the quarrel said Mulvaney was frustrated because he felt Cipollone wasn't reading him in on the appropriate legal matters that a chief of staff needs to know about.” cnn.com/2019/10/20/pol…
Interesting. reminded of Chris Wallace Sept. 29 report that snr US official told them Giuliani, Toensing & Giuliani were working “off the books” to get dirt for Trump in Ukraine. “The only person in government who knew what they were doing” is Trump. foxnews.com/transcript/hig…
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Laura Rozen
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oh man. we are idiots.
the guy who is charged in US in bribery case is ...Firtash!

justice.gov/opa/pr/six-def…
Read this Bloomberg story below before/after you read the NYT story above

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DOJ announcement on unsealed indictment of Firtash and others in bribery/racketeering case justice.gov/opa/pr/six-def…
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Laura Rozen
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the oval office meeting where Trump directed Sondland, Perry and Volker to go thru Giuliani on Trump concerns on Ukraine was May 23.
texts released by Volker and Sondland testimony show it was Giuliani who signed off on the July 25 Trump Zelensky call.
Then the texts show that a meeting was set up for Giuliani with Zelensky advisor Yermak in Spain in August.
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‼️Update: #UkraineGate

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🔥Yet another quid pro quo & foreign interference >> #Firtash associates were working to dig up dirt on Biden in an effort to get Rudy #Giuliani’s help in the oligarch’s legal case fighting extradition to US on bribery charges. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #UkraineGate #Impeachment
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Republican Senator: Dmytro #Firtash "earned millions while fighting extradition to U.S.

Dmytro Firtash has been under indictment in Chicago since 2014. He was also involved in a failed business deal w/ex-Trump campaign chair Paul #Manafort." #Bvlgari

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"Sen Roger Wicker, R-MS, wrote in an 4/18 letter obtained by NBC News that #Firtash had served as a "direct agent of the Kremlin" and was using the money earned from ONGOING "corruption" to delay his extradition to Chicago, where he has been under federal indictment since 2014."
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"Firtash was indicted in 2014 for...his role in bribing INDIAN officials in order to get a lucrative mining deal to sell titanium to BOEING. He was arrested in Vienna in 3/14, released on $174 MILLION bail, and has been contesting his extradition to the U.S. ever since."
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