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NEW: Ukraine's state-owned energy company Naftogaz has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a deal in which a US company co-owned by a former donor to Rick Perry got the rights to develop a huge complex of oil and gas fields while he was Energy Secretary time.com/5750669/exclus…
In a draft of the complaint obtained by TIME, Naftogaz alleges that the Ukrainian govt acted illegally and with bias when it granted the oil and gas fields to the company owned by one of Rick Perry’s longtime allies and financial backers, @shustry reports time.com/5750669/exclus…
This lawsuit raises questions about a different kind of US political influence in Ukraine, and casts a spotlight on Rick Perry’s role in Ukraine’s oil and gas industry as Energy Secretary.

Bleyzer insists his company won the rights "fairly and without any political influence"
More details and documents about the Naftogaz lawsuit via @shustry ⤵️
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Vera Bergengruen
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Quite the photo of a dinner with Kurt Volker, Gordon Sondland, Bill Taylor and Zelensky adviser Oleksandr Danylyuk in Kyiv — posted by the latter on July 26, the day Trump was overheard on a phone call with Sondland asking about "investigations."
According to Taylor's testimony, this dinner occurred the night before on July 25, the day of the Trump-Zelensky call.
"During dinner we had an opportunity to discuss wide range of topical issues."
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Vera Bergengruen
@VeraMBergen
It's transcript time. Again.

Here's Fiona Hill, Trump's former Russia adviser: docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG…
Was wondering why Matt Gaetz was listed at the top of of Fiona Hill's testimony and then remembered that this was the day he led a group of Republicans in storming the SCIF.

In case you're wondering how that went down:
Here's Fiona Hill recounting Bolton's now infamous quote "He basically said Rudy Giuliani is a hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up"

Hill says Bolton was "pained" but "he made it clear that he didn't feel that there was anything that he could personally do about this"
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Vera Bergengruen
@VeraMBergen
New, with @aabramson: As Pompeo has been catapulted into the center of the escalating Ukraine/impeachment drama, he's walking a fine line between defending a president who values personal loyalty above all else and his political future time.com/5692547/mike-p…
Multiple State Department officials told TIME that Pompeo has become consumed by the political battle and is neglecting much of his work as Secretary of State, becoming "increasingly loud and bullying," distracted and impatient during policy meetings time.com/5692547/mike-p…
"The officials at the State Department, starting with the Secretary of State, are there to serve only one purpose. And that is the care and feeding of Donald J. Trump.” time.com/5692547/mike-p…
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🚨@HouseDemocrats slap Energy @SecretaryPerry with a #subpoena for #Urkainegate documents.

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@HouseDemocrats @SecretaryPerry 🔥Perry worked closely with Rudy and his #Ukrainegate Soviet-born henchmen (just arrested) to change the management of #Naftogaz (Ukraine state-run gas go) to people who'd steer profitable contracts to @realDonaldTrump's cronies.

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@HouseDemocrats @SecretaryPerry @realDonaldTrump Rudy's #Ukrainegate henchmen told people in #Ukraine that then-US Ambassador to #Ukraine (not a Trump patsy) would be replaced **MONTHS BEFORE** she was removed by Team🇷🇺Trump, presumably by @SecPompeo.

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Karol Cummins
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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.
💣 Naftogaz2💣

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“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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Karol Cummins
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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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Jim Roberts
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How a $1 million donor to Trump’s inauguration (with no other qualifications) seized control of US-Ukraine relations with the blessing of Trump himself. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
“Newly released texts exchanged by Sondland, Volker and other U.S. officials during this period read like a government-sanctioned shakedown.”
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JM Rieger
@RiegerReport
New York Times report from May on Biden, Ukraine and Burisma Holdings:

"No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.”

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NYT - Hunter Biden was warned by associates who had experience in Ukraine to stay away from Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma Holdings, who had worked in the government of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.

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Zlochevsky faced multiple internal/external investigations for money laundering, Yanukovych-era corruption, tax evasion and the granting of gas licenses.

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