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"Parnas and Fruman 'wanted a sole-source contract or some guarantee they would have a contract to supply liquified natural gas to Ukraine through Naftogaz,” using the company’s infrastructure such as pipelines and storage tanks...

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"Standing in the way of these projects were US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Naftogaz's reformist CEO and the Naftogaz supervisory board.

Giuliani’s clients, with an array of influential helpers, appear to have tried to replace all three."

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"When Giuliani was asked by Politico in October whether he had been aware of the campaign to install new board members at Naftogaz, he answered: 'I may or may not know anything about it'.”

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"Trump took steps to conceal the details of his formal meeting with Putin in Hamburg, taking the notes away from his interpreter and instructing her not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials..."

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"White House aides were not part of Trump’s private conversation with Putin in Hamburg, or a later meeting he had in Helsinki for two hours with the Russian president"

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"This fall, U.S. intelligence officials informed lawmakers about what they have concluded has been an organized campaign by Russian propagandists to spread the Ukraine theory on social media...

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One of the things I did not have on my impeachment bingo card is that the GOP would have to sideline the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee from these proceedings...

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Notice how it was Nadler (D) and Collins (R) from Judiciary leading things in the morning...

and then Schiff (D) and... Collins again in the afternoon?

Devin Nunes (not Collins) is Schiff's Republican counterpart on the Intel Committee.

Where's Congressman Nunes?...

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Impeachments are so rare that there's no such thing as a normal one.

But the House GOP having their own supposed lead investigator in the impeachment scandal... *himself* tied up in the scandal is... quite the plot twist.

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Prosecutors' new filing in the Lev Parnas case requests revocation of his bail.

Remarkable turn of events, given Parnas's key role in the Ukraine scheme for which the president is now being impeached.

Here prosecutors cite Lev's "seemingly limitless access to foreign funds":
"In the last three years, Parnas received in excess of $1.5 million from Ukrainian and Russian sources":
"Parnas is aware that is is likely he will be charged with additional offenses"
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When Parnas and Fruman traveled to Ukraine last winter to help Giuliani manufacture dirt on Trump's political opponents (bc he can’t win without cheating) they were accompanied by a 44 year-old American named David Correia.
Parnas and Fruman had high-level contacts in Ukraine &worked to manufacture dirt

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"The New York Times reported in 5/18 that Ukraine had “halted cooperation” with Mueller’s investigation. The paper quoted Volodymyr Ariev, a parliament ally of Poroshenko, explaining: “In every possible way, we will avoid irritating the top American officials.”
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#Parnas went to Warsaw, ck dates
"I arranged the Shokin call with the mayor," #Parnas tells NPR, referring to Giuliani by his title from when he was mayor of New York City.

There also were meetings in late January in New York and mid-February in Warsaw with Yuriy Lutsenko."

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"In just three wks in July, he racked up charges in Warsaw, L.A., Washington, and N.Y., spending thousands at each stop. There was a $3,182 charge at a glitzy nightclub in WeHo and more than $1K at two Japanese restaurants — all on the same day." #Parnas

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💣 Naftogaz💣

Their aims were profit, not politics.

This circle of businessmen & GOP touted connex to Giuliani & Trump while trying to install new mgmt at the top of Naftogaz.

Their plan was to then steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies.
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Favorov said Parnas told him Trump planned to remove U.S. Amb Marie Yovanovitch (three mos b/4) & replace her with someone more open to aiding their business interests.

“The ambassador to Ukraine was replaced,” Giuliani said. “I did play a role in that.”
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Perry made clear that the Trump administration wanted to see the entire Naftogaz supervisory board replaced.

Perry w/ Volker & Sondland in attendance in mtg w/ Zekensky, again referenced the list of advisers (Trump donor/allies) that he had given Zelenskiy.
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Rick Perry & the sale & transportation of US LNG (liquid natural gas) to UKR

TeamTrump is likely up to mischief, which we will probably learn more about in the coming days.

Let’s first review some background information about UKR gas supplies & infrastructure.

Gazprom = RU
🔑The future of the transportation of Russian gas to Europe is wide open.

🔑The role of Ukraine, historically the main transit corridor, will change after the current transit contract between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy expires on 31 December 2019.

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5/29/19, Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolyev participated in a meeting between Zelensky and an official U.S. delegation headed by Energy Secretary Rick Perry.

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