Posted on 02/21/2020 6:12:03 PM PST by bitt
A consultant for Burisma with links to Hunter Biden approached a top State Department official in June 2016 to discuss “troubling events” in Ukraine, according to newly released State Department emails.
Consultant Sally Painter of Blue Star Strategies was at the time working with Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company, to quash corruption investigations into the firm. Painter approached then-deputy secretary of state Tony Blinken at an event for the Truman National Security Project, and sent an email to Blinken’s top aide three days later requesting a second meeting with the deputy secretary.
“Per my conversation with Tony at the Truman event, [Painter’s Blue Star partner] Karen Tramontano and I would like to have a brief coffee with Tony at his earliest convenience regarding some troubling events we are seeing n [sic] Ukraine,” Painter wrote in a June 27, 2016 email first reported by the Daily Caller.
The email shows an instance of Burisma’s efforts to contact State Department officials at the same time it was being investigated for corruption. However, the email does not specify whether Painter discussed Burisma with Blinken. Other emails show that Tramontano had been in contact with the state department specifically regarding Burisma.
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The timeline of this meeting is after Shokin had been fired. Biden and the press all allege that Shokin was fired for NOT investigating Burisma yet records show that he had seized Burisma’s assets and was going to question Hunter Biden about a money laundering alert from Latvia just days before Biden bribed Poroshenko to remove him.
If Biden’s story was that he was trying to get rid of the corrupt Shokin to allow real investigations into Burisma why did these (corrupt?) Burisma PR folks get a high level meeting with our State Department to convince them that Burisma was not so bad?
Why did the new prosecutor, Lutsenko, that Biden thought was “a solid guy” meet with a former US attorney working for Burisma who got him to drop all the corruption charges against Burisma?
Why does Joe Biden get away with talking out of one side of his mouth in public about cleaning up Burisma and Ukraine corruption while his actions actually accomplish the exact opposite?
Giuliani interviewed Lutsenko.
This bastard himself admitted Yovanovich called him to his office and told he shouldn’t touch ‘our people’ hinting it didn’t end well for Shokin’s career.
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