Posted on 04/21/2025 2:26:37 PM PDT by McGruff
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has racked up a string of lucrative directorships since leaving office, The Post can reveal, including a multi-million-dollar consulting gig with Ukraine’s top cell phone operator.
Pompeo, whose security detail was revoked by President Trump in January, signed up for an advisory job with Kyivstar and its Nasdaq-listed parent VEON in June of last year, financial filings show.
The 61-year-old had joined the boards of Kyivstar and VEON in November 2023 and May 2024, respectively.
Documents reviewed by The Post show that Pompeo is paid $50,000 a month — or $600,000 a year — for “strategic and financial advice” and “engaging with relevant Ukrainian, US and EU stakeholders.”
Pompeo’s Delaware-based Impact Investments firm was also handed stock warrants worth $16 million, and a $3 million bonus “in connection with the successful completion of a strategic M&A transaction.”
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"The Enemy Within".
Globalists sure know where the $$$$ is. Seems like an endless supply.
I don’t begrudge anyone the right to make money. Cabinet secretaries are smart and intelligent. But there need to be laws to prevent them from selling access or getting government contracts for their companies. That would separate the ones who get jobs due to ability vs. ones who get jobs to sell access.
Ukraine has a been a political black box for political and financial corruption for US and EU government elites, since at least 2014
Indirectly via however many conduits, that money came from the US.
Trump has to shut it all off. All of it. I was willing to allow food aid to flow, but even that would be grabbed by these Swamp filth consultant types.
Hunter 2.0
Another Neocon cashing in on war.
Just watched “Bitter Harvest” dvd. It’s about the Holodomor in Ukraine. Russians were pretty brutal. We can’t stop the present one even though it’s not as bad.
Launder that cash deep state!!
Exactly. He was always scum.
Ukraine of course. I’m so surprised!
bttt
Exactly. Essentially we are paying Pompeo to advise Ukraine. Disgusting.
Did he register with the State Department as a foreign agent?
Why did Ukraine need Starlink if they have their own cell phone company and internet providers?
His dream of being on the Haley/Pompeo ticket in 2024 were dashed when the deep state failed in their attempt to murder PDJT in Butler.
He and Pence should collaborate; they’re two of a kind.
From USAID/US Treasury and other embezzlement schemes that
steal cash from the USA. So many Deep-State folks
becoming rich from Ukraine kickback schemes.
That smells
This is why the DC Swamp creatures keep getting us entangled in foreign adventures. Its all so they can make money.
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