Posted on 12/16/2019 12:37:13 PM PST by Red Badger
Robert Powell, the husband of Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., reportedly took $700,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch named Igor Kolomoisky. Mucarsel-Powell sits on the House Judiciary Committee, the committee that drafted two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his alleged abuse of power with regards to Ukraine.
In 2018, the Daily Beast reported that a number of businesses linked to Kolomoisky hired Powell as an attorney. One of those firms paid Powell at least $700,000 over two years, according to public records.
The Miami Herald reported Powell was working for companies tied to Kolomoisky for 10 years. Powell made most of his money in the two years leading up to his wife’s election in 2018.
Kolomoisky has been accused of contract killings and embezzlement in the past. Yet, in 2018 when Mucarsel-Powell was running for her seat, she did not see her husband’s work as relevant to her campaign.
“Debbie Mucrasel-Powell is running for Congress, not her husband. To imply that Debbie has anything to do with her indirect shareholder of a parent company that once employed her husband is an enormous stretch,” said Michael Hernandez, senior communications advisor for her campaign in 2018.
While Mucrasel-Powell may have convinced her constituents that her husband’s work is unrelated, it is a clear conflict in the current impeachment of Trump. Mucarsel-Powell voted to impeach Trump.
Florida Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell just voted to impeach @realDonaldTrump.
What got ZERO attention: Her husband took $700K from firms tied to a Ukrainian oligarch under FBI investigation.
A total double standard! #FL26
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) December 13, 2019
The House has moved to impeach Trump over a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. When the House initiated impeachment hearings, they were arguing Trump asked for a quid pro quo or potentially bribed the Ukrainian president. No evidence to corroborate those charges has been found, so now the House is charging the president with abuse of power and obstructing Congress in relation to the Ukrainian phone call.
And yet, no Democrats see a problem with one of their own committee members’ spouses doing business with a Ukrainian ogliarch. There has been no check on whether Mucrasel-Powell is benefitting from her husband’s work with a foreign power that interfered in the 2016 election.
There is a double standard in Mucrasel-Powell’s ability to impeach the President for his work in Ukraine, simultaneously, allowing her husband to earn money from Kolomoisky, a thug from the same foreign power. Chrissy Clark is a staff writer at The Federalist. Follow her on social media @chrissyclark_ or contact her at chrissy@thefederalist.com.
Did they declare it on their taxes?...............................
LOL! They’re dems. They get special rules for that.
Biden’s son.
Pelosi’s son.
Powell’s husband.
Trump’s catching flak. Must be over the target.
...we have too many involved to handle it well
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If Congressional members are corrupt and if their actions are suspect, it doesn’t matter what the party is. We already know they act as a uniparty against the interests of the country.
Investigate. Disseminate names, dates, amounts and connections and do it via real journalists, not some equally corrupt and suspect agency/department. Re-install the rule of law and use the process to invalidate this entire charade of an unconstitutional star chamber *impeachment*.
Or maybe the PTB really want to see the world burn?
Their choice or our choice. Seems pretty clear as to which the American people will choose. If not, let’s have some 2-hour documentaries as to quality of life during civil war in Yugoslavia/the Balkans.
As things stand, I hate to admit that our government appears to have been high-jacked and it is time to take it back.
Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff is connected to a Ukrainian arms dealer ... Is this why he’s willing to lie in front of the nation?
In 2013 Ukrainian Igor Pasternak held two different fund raisers for Schiff asking for contributions between $1,000 and $2,500 –
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3782231/posts
Where does Ukraine get all this money??
According to this ‘logic’, if I were to have a job of robbing banks for a living, owned a house of ill repute, and had several illegal gambling establishments, that my wife can run for office and NONE of it counts?
Sweet....
As stated earlier...
WHY are ‘we’ wasting time and money investigating a BILLIONAIRE that became a politician
WHEN
The real worry should be politicians who became millionaires while humbly ‘serving the public’.
This whole video is informative but here’s a little more on Igor Kolomoisky. Go to 14:00 for a quick, 30 second run-up. Kolomoisky keeps popping up for several more minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxrR6dmzpCI&feature=youtu.be
American Foreign aid. That’s how it works. We give money to corrupt foreign officials, then they kickback some of it to Congress’ relatives................
Make all the oligarchs pay their fair share./s
Thanks Red Badger.
Ping to video in my #28
I think you’ll find it very interesting.
from the US via military cash we send them....see how that works?
That's the big question. I'm betting there's Ukrainian cash spread out generously amongst the Democrats.
BUT....another question...NO REPUBLICANS GOT ANY OF THIS CASH? NONE OF THEM KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?
This is going to blow wide open.
This is just sickening.
Ukraine was the slush fund to enrich democrats.
We know Planned Parenthood is a slush fund.
How many more slush funds are there that funnel American Tax dollars to enrich democrats and to pad their campaign funds.
This is a coup. A coup where not a shot is fired. Just lies, corruption, and we are the dupes who work and pay taxes.
Yeah but they're not supposed to impeach an innocent president for him, call him all kind of names, accuse it, accuse of crimes he did not commit.
Not to mention charging the American people for all this as this lawyer's money, in effect, came out of taxpayer's pockets.
I think there are a few who are squeaky clean - Jordan, Nunes, Biggs, Gaetz and some others who don’t come to mind.
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