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Yuriy Lutsenko: "a detailed look at Mr. Lutsenko’s record shows how Mr. Trump and his allies embraced and relied on a Ukrainian prosecutor with no formal legal training and a long history of wielding the law as a weapon in his personal political battles" nytimes.com/2019/10/05/wor…
"the unsigned draft proposal outlined an agreement where Lutsenko would have paid at least $200,000 to retain Giuliani's firm and the husband-and-wife legal team of Joseph E. diGenova and Victoria Toensing" cnn.com/2019/11/28/pol…
October 2019: "Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigations opened criminal proceedings against Yuriy Lutsenko over his possible abuse of power, the government agency said...(Lutsenko) onspired to "provide cover" for illegal gambling businesses in Ukraine" usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
March 20, 2019: John Solomon transmits Yuriy Lutsenko's narrative of being given "do not prosecute list" by Ambo and "withholding $4M in funding" story thehill.com/hilltv/rising/…
John Solomon again: "Lutsenko’s probe was prompted by a Ukrainian parliamentarian's release of a tape recording purporting to quote a top law enforcement official as saying his agency leaked the Manafort financial records to help Clinton's campaign." thehill.com/opinion/campai…
Actual context: "In a post to Facebook on Dec 12, 2018 Leshchenko, who is a member of Ukraine’s parliament, criticized the ruling, saying it was politically motivated, and aimed at undermining Sytnyk, who is director of the National Anti-Corruption"Bureau.rferl.org/a/ukraine-cour…
"the decision was aimed at helping President Petro Poroshenko remove Sytnyk from office. By finding the Anti- Corruption chief in violation of the law, the government ..deflect criticism from among Western diplomats in Kyiv if he is removed" docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU…
#Fuckery: "analysis of multiple documents, supported by interviews in Ukraine, shows that it was Shokin and Lutsenko who supplied Giuliani's team with a complex narrative. That narrative -- a laundry list of unsupported allegations" cnn.com/2019/10/05/pol…
According to filings in 2018 Ukraine prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko declared that he took in $741,698.34 in govt income with a prosecutors salary of $74,197. His MP wife his wife Iryna, has $2.45 million in cash on a salary of $18K plus expenses. ukrinform.net/rubric-society…
No stranger to Manafort and Yanukovichs dirty tricks: "Yanukovich may try to bargain with the EU, agreeing to let Lutsenko go but keeping Tymoshenko - a much more dangerous political foe - locked up as he prepares to run for a second term in early 2015." reuters.com/article/us-ukr…
Manafort conducted a two faced campaign for corrupt Russian backed Viktor Yanukovych to falsely discredit his jailed rival Yulia Tymoshenko while using the release of Lutsenko as an example of being progressive to US politicians.
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and all this while various nefarious players quietly endeavored to strip the Ukraine economy euromaidanpress.com/2019/09/07/chi…
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