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.
This is not unusual. Fusion GPS, taking money from the Russians. The Podestas, taking money from Ukrainians and Russians. Steele, Russians again. Clintons, of course, massive amounts of Russian money.
And then we look at China, and the Saudis, and the Qataris...
Just about everyone at the trough except Trump.
That is one big ass Maytag the Ukranians have.
Don’t think for a moment that it was JUST Dems at this Ukraine trough you can bet there were republicans at that trough as well, one of them being Graham!!
There ought to be a law requiring ALL public officials to disclose their and their families’ ties with anything that has even the appearance of impropriety or conflict of interest.
“Where does Ukraine get all this money??” The U.S. taxpayer.
She was sitting next to another woman at the last debate on impeachment - the one that went until midnight or so - sitting down on the first row. It could have been Demings also from FL. When the camera was on them, they were always huddled as tho’ discussing something of great importance - checking each other’s phone/photos whatever. What was going on in the debate was of no interest to them at all. I believe it was their papers the reporter was taking shots of that they left behind on their table when they went on recess.
YUP! And I can see that without any FBI investigators.
This is the kind of thing that starts revolutions...
“Where does Ukraine get all this money??”
They get a ton of money from the US - for military, development, infrastructure and more. And they play loose with it.
https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/press-conference/625831.html
All politicians should be required to wear jackets that has logos of all their benefactors. That way we can see who’s “owned” by who.
Effin crooked demonrats. When are we going to have enough of this crap poured on us. This, “do as I say, not as I do”, elitist bs
I sense a great disturbance in the Farce..........
McCain
Graham
Biden
Obama
Her Thighness
Nadler
and on and on and on.
psychological warfare played to the hilt.
Oh wait that is just Hoppe's #9.
Do you honestly think that Republicans aren't involved in this or other such scams to relieve the US taxpayer of his money for their own benefit?
Republicans, do something about it other than talk, or it doesn’t matter.
Wray hasn’t even finished reading his orders from deep state and the swamp oligarchy, so he can’t get right on this.
Can we make citizens’ arrests? LOL!
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