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Questions we need to find out about Giuliani's business in Ukraine, where he was pursuing the actual US policy:
1. Who paid him & how much? Kernes, Fuchs, Rabinovich, others?
2. What was Giuliani paid for?
3. What role did Lev Parnas & Igor Fruman play?
4. Did Giuliani actually work for eloped gas oligarch Dmytro Firtash or was he only trying to get business from him?
5. For what did Parnas & Fruman pay Giuliani $500,000?
6. What design did Parnas & Fruman have in Ukraine? Help Firtash with his Naftogaz debt of $3bn?
7. Was Rick Perry involved in this Firtash gas business or not as his staff allege?
8. How come that Giuliani thought that former prosecutors general Viktor Shokin &b Yuriy Lutsenko would say anything truthfully given that they had never done so before? Is Giuliani that dumb?
9. Why did Sean Hannity publicize Giuliani's lies? How deeply involved in the Giuliani/Trump crimes is Hannity, FoxNews & Rupert Murdoch?
10. To what extent do the Giuliani & Trump dealings in Ukraine go back to the Russian/Ukrainian organized crime of Mogilevich/Brighton Beach?
This looks like a major mafia racket involving many truly odious characters. Does US law enforcement have sufficient skill & integrity to sort it out. I doubt it, but I would be very happy to be proven wrong.
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