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28 Apr, 13 tweets, 5 min read
Federal investigators searched Rudy Giuliani’s apartment this morning as part of an investigation into his possible violation of federal lobbying laws — so let’s do a quick review of what we’ve learned about Giuliani’s role in the Ukraine scandal.
nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyr…
Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine were at the center of the 2019 impeachment investigation, including the campaign to pressure former President Trump to fire the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marine Yovanovitch.
Our FOIAs and litigation uncovered records showing Giuliani was in contact with then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in March 2019, in the midst of the effort to dig up dirt on Yovanovitch.
documentcloud.org/documents/6557…
The records also show that Trump’s assistant in the Oval Office was the one that connected Giuliani to Pompeo’s office.
documentcloud.org/documents/6557…
What was Giuliani getting in touch with Pompeo about? According to news reports, he wanted to deliver a packet of information he had compiled about Yovanovitch, including an email sent by conservative opinion writer John Solomon.
The Solomon email had been sent to Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and included an article containing conspiracy theories about the 2016 election.
That email had also been sent to one of Trump’s other attorneys, Victoria Toensing — whose home was also searched by federal agents today.
The investigators’ warrant executed at Giuliani’s apartment today reportedly sought “communications between Mr. Giuliani and individuals including John Solomon.”
wsj.com/articles/rudy-…
Texts released during the impeachment inquiry show that, in the days surrounding Giuliani's contacts with Pompeo, Parnas and other Giuliani associates were in touch with contacts in Ukraine surveilling Yovanovitch.
americanoversight.org/messages-to-pa…
Yovanovitch was removed on April 24, 2019, and US policy in Ukraine was handed off to the “three amigos” as Trump and Giuliani ramped up their campaign to pressure the Ukrainian government to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
That campaign culminated in Trump’s infamous July 25 call to the president of Ukraine and in the withholding of US military aid.
A month after that, a senior Pentagon official sent an email regarding that military aid, writing that top officials — including Pompeo — agreed that it should be released. “Final decision rests with POTUS,” the official wrote. americanoversight.org/final-decision…
We don’t know what Giuliani and Pompeo discussed in March 2019 — but we’re continuing to investigate the extent to which Pompeo and other senior Trump administration officials were involved in the pressure campaign.

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30 Apr
NEW: After Donald Trump was acquitted in February 2020, it was revealed that DOJ had created a special “intake process” for assessing information Rudy Giuliani provided about Ukraine.

We obtained new documents related to this troubling backchannel.
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In February 2020, following Trump's partisan acquittal in the Senate, then-Attorney General William Barr confirmed an assertion made by Sen. Lindsey Graham that DOJ had created an "intake process" for assessing Giuliani-provided information.
The Washington Post reported that the info was being routed through the office of the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Scott Brady.

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We obtained more than 2,000 pages of documents from the early months of the pandemic. For this #FOIAFriday, here’s what the documents show about the CDC’s struggles to create and implement reliable Covid testing.
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New: We obtained former Attorney General William Barr’s calendars for May 2019 through 2020. These records show Barr attended numerous White House meetings during the height of impeachment.
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29 Apr
New Lawsuit: The Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy affected more than 71,000 asylum-seekers. It ran two years. DHS claims it has no records of top officials’ communications about the program. We’re going to court.
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27 Apr
The Arizona Senate is conducting a partisan audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County and it hired the firm Cyber Ninjas to conduct the audit. Our concerns about the transparency of the audit keep growing. #azleg
The Cyber Ninjas firm has refused to provide details about who is involved in the audit and who is paying for it beyond Arizona taxpayers. @JenAFifield from @azcentral reported that many audit procedures were seemingly finalized on the fly last Friday.
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This audit has lacked transparency from the very beginning. Arizona Senate President Karen Fann announced last month that the audit would be led by Cyber Ninjas with no oversight by members of the Senate.
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