Thread by @awprokop

Mini-thread on how State Dept official George Kent described the greatest hits of Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office pals in his impeachment inquiry testimony…

1. Viktor Shokin - “The diamond prosecutor affair” — When Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutors arrested Shokin’s close friend and former driver (confiscating a “cache of diamonds” from him), Shokin “went to war” to try and “destroy” any government official involved in the case

2. Nazar Khotodnytsky - “The fish tank case” — When a bug was placed in the fish tank in his office, in just “2 weeks, he was caught trying to suborn a witness, coach him to lie, as well as obstruct justice” and “bribe the minister of health”

3. Yuriy Lutsenko - The passport sales ring investigation — In a probe of Ukrainian officials selling passports, Lutsenko ended up “essentially colluding with a corrupt official to undermine the investigation,” including by exposing undercover agents’ names

Giuliani has relied on all three to advance his Biden claims. He met Lutsenko in NYC, met Kholodnytsky in Paris.

Shokin tried to go to NYC to meet him, but State wouldn't give him a visa. He was reportedly about to meet Rudy in Vienna before Rudy's cronies were arrested