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Reports: US prosecutors investigating Ukrainian meddling in election
Israel National News ^ | 28/5/21

Posted on 05/27/2021 9:00:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have been investigating whether several Ukrainian officials helped orchestrate a wide-ranging plan to meddle in the 2020 presidential campaign, including using attorney Rudy Giuliani to spread misleading claims about President Joe Biden and tilt the election in former President Donald Trump’s favor, people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times on Thursday.

The criminal investigation, which began during the final months of the Trump administration and has not been previously reported, underscores the federal government’s increasingly aggressive approach toward rooting out foreign interference in American electoral politics.

Much of that effort is focused on Russian intelligence, which has suspected ties to at least one of the Ukrainians now under investigation, according to the report.

The investigation is unfolding separately from a long-running federal inquiry in Manhattan that is aimed at Giuliani. While the two investigations have a similar cast of characters and overlap in some ways, Giuliani is not a subject of the Brooklyn investigation, the sources said.

Instead, the Brooklyn prosecutors, along with the F.B.I., are focused on current and former Ukrainian officials suspected of trying to influence the election by spreading unsubstantiated claims of corruption about Biden through a number of channels, including Giuliani, according to The New York Times.

It is unclear whether the Brooklyn prosecutors will ultimately charge any of the Ukrainians.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; brooklyn; ednewyork; edny; giuliani; hunterbiden; ukraine
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Corruption? Biden? Say it ain't so, Joe!/S
1 posted on 05/27/2021 9:00:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Notice the last line of the paragraph it’s unclear if anyone can be charged lol they are literally trying this in the press cause they have nothing


2 posted on 05/27/2021 9:02:24 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: Eleutheria5

“… tilt the election in former President Donald Trump’s favor”

Sure. Who was in the bag for Ukraine?


3 posted on 05/27/2021 9:03:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: Lod881019

De ja vous all over again.


4 posted on 05/27/2021 9:08:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Eleutheria5

Haha the leftwing has to remind their own that corruption is “unsubstantiated”. In fact, the Biden Crime Family is corrupt.


5 posted on 05/27/2021 9:09:11 PM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: Eleutheria5

3rd times a charm eh?

Once, Twice, Three times ...


6 posted on 05/27/2021 9:10:15 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Eleutheria5

They are pure evil.


7 posted on 05/27/2021 9:10:37 PM PDT by ALASKA (Trump will win resoundingly, but it's not going to be pretty. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Ukraine is the epicenter of US political corruption in the last decade. Specifically, US politicians appropriate huge sums of money to Ukraine. Ukraine hires their kids and entourages as “consultants”. Kerry’s stepsons, the Biden crime family, Pelosi’s son. Romney associates, Manafort, etc etc.

God only knows how many more we don’t know about.

Washington is deeply corrupt and deserves no respect from any American.


8 posted on 05/27/2021 9:13:52 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Eleutheria5

Having an opinion that the Biden crime family are shady is now a criminal act.


9 posted on 05/27/2021 9:18:52 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Eleutheria5

Oh what nonsense.


10 posted on 05/27/2021 9:55:21 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Eleutheria5

As far as foreign interference goes, Mike Lindell has covered it more extensively than anyone.


11 posted on 05/27/2021 9:57:40 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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"unsubstantiated"

Pay no attention to the Hunter Biden laptop behind the curtain.

12 posted on 05/27/2021 10:18:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Eleutheria5; All
This appears to be related to the following press release from the Secretary of State (Pompeo) during the final weeks of the Trump administration:

Sanctioning Russia-linked Disinformation Network for its Involvement in Attempts to Influence U.S. Election
Today, the United States is imposing sanctions on seven individuals and four entities that are part of a Russia-linked foreign influence network associated with Andrii Derkach, who was designated on September 10, 2020, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13848 for his attempt to influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. Derkach, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, has been an active Russian agent for more than a decade, maintaining close connections with Russian intelligence services.

Former Ukraine Government officials Konstantin Kulyk, Oleksandr Onyshchenko, Andriy Telizhenko, and current member of the Ukrainian parliament Oleksandr Dubinsky, have publicly appeared with or affiliated themselves with Derkach through the coordinated dissemination and promotion of fraudulent or unsubstantiated allegations involving a U.S. political candidate. They have made repeated public statements advancing malicious narratives that U.S. Government officials have engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine. These efforts and narratives are consistent with or in support of Derkach’s objectives to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election. As such, these individuals have been designated pursuant to E.O. 13848 for having directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign influence in an attempt to undermine the 2020 U.S. elections.

NabuLeaks, Era-Media, Only News, and Skeptik TOV are media front companies in Ukraine that disseminate false narratives at the behest of Derkach’s and his associates. They are being designated pursuant to E.O. 13848 for being owned or controlled by Derkach or his media team. Today’s action also includes the designation of Petro Zhuravel, Dmytro Kovalchuk, and Anton Simonenko for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Derkach.

13 posted on 05/27/2021 11:41:06 PM PDT by Qilin
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To: Eleutheria5

Take another seat on the UN-Merry-Go Round. It’s going to be a bumpy ride, for sure.


14 posted on 05/27/2021 11:41:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DesertRhino

If you go back to 2004 in the Ukraine....they had this event (Orange Revolution is the term used)...where various western groups (journalists, foundations, American pollsters, and professional ‘consultants’ arrived and got into organizational help.

Somewhere in the middle of this...the Bush State Department and USAID arrived and got hyped up that they could be a part of this ‘success’. In the same period...Soro’s group ‘Open Society Institute’ came into play.

You could say from this period 2004 to 2010...this was a four-star circus going on, with meddling by probably a minimum of three other countries, and at least twenty different groups.

I would suggest this is when the ‘hire-our-kids’ business started up and Hunter Biden was probably already connected in some way (way before the natural gas executive job opened up).


15 posted on 05/27/2021 11:59:54 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Eleutheria5

Yep and I thought Trump was such a Russian asset how is he getting help from the Ukraine?


16 posted on 05/28/2021 12:08:19 AM PDT by Lod881019
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To: Lod881019

> Yep and I thought Trump was such a Russian asset how is he getting help from the Ukraine?

Read my post (#13). These Ukrainians had ties to Russian intelligence. This was already being investigated by the State Department (Pompeo) during the Trump admin.


17 posted on 05/28/2021 12:36:53 AM PDT by Qilin
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To: Lod881019

Sounds like the leftist in the Manhattan DA’s office are trying to counter the Pompeo report. This could be illegal if it serves a political purpose to denigrate/smear Trump and promote Biden/Harris, etc.


18 posted on 05/28/2021 12:48:34 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ALASKA
Our Dept of Justice has become the Thought Police. Instead of serving justice, the Law stands ready to intimidate, harass, prosecute and imprison political enemies. Elections alone cannot restore free government.
19 posted on 05/28/2021 4:37:47 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Lod881019

HE SWITCHED SIDES! LAWSY, NOOOOOO!/S


20 posted on 05/28/2021 6:28:34 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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