Posted on 03/26/2019 5:55:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
The focus on AntAC — whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted.
The prosecutors soon would learn the resistance they faced was blowing directly from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, where the Obama administration took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and the group.
“The investigation into the Anti-Corruption Action Center (sic), based on the assistance they have received from us, is similarly misplaced,” then-embassy Charge d’ Affaires George Kent wrote the prosecutor’s office in April 2016 in a letter that also argued U.S. officials had no concerns about how the U.S. aid had been spent.
At the time, the nation’s prosecutor general had just been fired, under pressure from the United States, and a permanent replacement had not been named.
A few months later, Yuri Lutsenko, widely regarded as a hero in the West for spending two years in prison after fighting Russian aggression in his country, was named prosecutor general and invited to meet new U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
Lutsenko told me he was stunned when the ambassador “gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute.” The list included a founder of the AntAC group and two members of Parliament who vocally supported the group’s anti-corruption reform agenda, according to a source directly familiar with the meeting.
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the ambassador “gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute.”..
Well, the king is dead. Long #### the king.
Do what you want now. With our HELP if we can!
this collusion altered the US election.
when will someone HANG?
Don’t speak ill of George Soros. It’s “antisemitic” as per Fox News.
Figures. Soros paid for it himself most likely.
Yes, please.
“Lutsenko told me he was stunned when the ambassador “gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute.” “
It may not be soon, and I may not be around to see it. But someday, someone is gonna decide that we need to be nuked. Maybe if they are cool, they’ll just hit DC, NYC, LA, San Fran.. and maybe Florida with a neutron bomb would be a nice gesture. Then they’ll see if they can strike a deal to live harmoniously with the rest of us.
This is spelled O-B-A-M-A.
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This was during the Obama administration.
Btt
That is the point. Barry did it.
I’m shocked to hear this, shocked I say.
Screw them. During the elections they believed Hillary would win and they tried to bring Trump down to win favors. Now with Trump as president and their oncoming elections they want to win back Trump by backstabbing Obama regime and Hillary.
Who needs such an allies? You are guaranteed to get backstabbed would the political winds change.
hope any Obama hold-overs, including Marie Yovanovitch, will soon be gone from the Embassy.
Obama again...
Lol.
Trump government is the champion of George Soros.
State Department warns Hungary: Anti-Soros law ‘another step away’ from NATO
US State Department tries to save Soros University in Hungary
http://freewestmedia.com/2017/04/13/us-state-department-tries-to-save-soros-university-in-hungary/
shocked?
Trump government, Soros, Hungary.
State Department warns Hungary: Anti-Soros law ‘another step away’ from NATO
US State Department tries to save Soros University in Hungary
http://freewestmedia.com/2017/04/13/us-state-department-tries-to-save-soros-university-in-hungary/
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