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Ukrainian Oligarch Paid $700,000 To The Husband Of A House Judiciary Committee Democrat
thefederalist.com ^ | December 16, 2019 | By Chrissy Clark

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: boom; cleveland; debbiemucarselpowell; florida; igorkolomoisky; kickbacks; kolomoisky; mucarselpowell; ohio; oligarch; privatbank; robertpowell; trump; ukraine; ukrainian; ukrainianoligarch; volodymyrzelensky
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To: Tunehead54

I was just alluding to PJ O’Rourke’s book of that title. Other than that misunderstanding, we seem to agree on this.


81 posted on 12/16/2019 6:46:53 PM PST by Montaignes Cat
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To: Red Badger

Kolomoisky is a key figure in the Ukrainian Civil War, financing the Nazi’s, and closely tied to Pytor Omidayar, the founder of EBAY, who just happens to be a big financial supporter of ....

....CROWDSTRIKE...

Via his Omidyar Networks


82 posted on 12/16/2019 7:09:48 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: Chewbarkah
It’s time for blanket criminal investigations of Congresspersons and Senators for taking bribes laundered through spouses and family. Whatever joke “ethics” requirements they have placed on themselves accomplish nothing.

Now you're talking !

83 posted on 12/16/2019 7:42:02 PM PST by timestax
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To: elpadre
“Where does Ukraine get all this money??”

Yes, where?

84 posted on 12/16/2019 7:45:18 PM PST by timestax
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To: Trumplican

“How many more slush funds are there that funnel American Tax dollars to enrich democrats and to pad their campaign funds.”

NPR being another while always promoting left wing propaganda. They need to be under a partisan watch. If they refuse to be non partisan then they need theìr taxpayer funds eliminated. They also eliminated the right of taxpayers to publicly comment on their news and editorial views a couple years ago.


85 posted on 12/16/2019 7:56:48 PM PST by apoliticalone (Without freedom of speech we have no democracy and will lose all our freedoms.)
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To: CatOwner

She sounded like an ignoramus when speaking at the House Judiciary Com. hearings. I wonder how much her seat “cost” and who paid for it.


86 posted on 12/16/2019 10:26:55 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: tcrlaf

Kolomoisky already realized it was a loosing strategy since Soros and Democrats stripped him of his assets anyway.
Producing himself a puppet in form of Zelensky didn’t work as well since Zelensky fails to deliver too.


87 posted on 12/16/2019 10:55:53 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: Red Badger
700K from one company but there's more:

Now, there’s another apparent connection between the Kolomoisky and American politics. A number of businesses linked to the oligarch have hired the attorney Robert Powell, the husband of Democratic House of Representatives candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. Just one of those firms paid Powell at least $700,000 over two years, according to public records.

88 posted on 12/16/2019 10:56:26 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: Red Badger

This is a lovely little racket these corrupt politicians have setup for themselves. A son, daughter, or spouse pockets the bribe. Bribery by one degree of separation.


89 posted on 12/16/2019 11:15:19 PM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: Red Badger

The truth about these crooks is coming to light.


90 posted on 12/17/2019 4:25:32 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: xzins

Those contracts usually go to UNION companies and you know where those union dues go..............................


91 posted on 12/17/2019 6:21:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Chewbarkah
It’s time for blanket criminal investigations of Congresspersons and Senators for taking bribes laundered through spouses and family.

Call in the Marines to arrest the lot of them! Give em trials, punish appropriately.

92 posted on 12/17/2019 7:00:19 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuAJcWl6DE Kill a Commie for Mommie)
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To: Red Badger

I hope that Trump will drain the foreign aid swamp during his second term.


93 posted on 12/17/2019 12:23:07 PM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Eleutheria5

While the DC SOB’s steal from us via taxes.


94 posted on 12/18/2019 5:49:06 PM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: rawcatslyentist
Call in the Marines to arrest the lot of them! Give em trials, punish appropriately

That would be Amazing Justice!
95 posted on 12/18/2019 5:55:11 PM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Red Badger

Kiev protege allegedly behind Mariupol and Odessa massacres – leaked tapes
Russia Today ^ | 5-15-2014 | Russia Today
Posted on 5/15/2014, 5:54:11 PM by tcrlaf
Two leaked tapes have emerged on the internet where Kiev-appointed governor allegedly threatens an ex-presidential candidate who called for a referendum. The official may also be behind the Odessa massacre and Mariupol shootings, the leak adds.
On the first tape, which appeared on May 14, an oligarch and governor of the city of Dnepropetrovsk in southeastern Ukraine, Igor Kolomoisky, allegedly called ex-presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev and started threatening him. He told Tsarev to leave Ukraine immediately, saying it was in connection with the killing of Bogdan Shlemkevich, a soldier from Ukraine’s National Guard on May 9 in Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine.
SNIP——
They put $1 million for your head, they will go after you everywhere,” Kolomoisky told him. “Tomorrow they will look for your people and relatives,” said the Ukrainian oligarch.


96 posted on 12/28/2019 10:07:59 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Trumplican
Congress has passed laws that make this kind of money laundering/handouts to family and friends of Congress critters illegal if done with American companies. Somehow, Congress has not passed similar laws regarding foreign companies. Thus, what Hunter Biden, Paul Pelosi jr, etc have done is probably legal. Voters might not like it, but probably not illegal.

As he says near the end of this excellent video, the scam is well laid out and documented in Peter Schweizer's book "Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends".

That book is really an eye-opener of detail. It is so well-done that I bought my own copy after reading it borrowed from the library.

97 posted on 12/31/2019 10:13:37 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: Red Badger
Update on Igor Kolomoisky: FBI raids offices at downtown One Cleveland Center building tied to Ukrainian oligarch (Clinton! Burisma?)
98 posted on 08/05/2020 11:35:43 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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