Posted on 09/25/2019 9:26:37 AM PDT by bitt
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko told Hill.TV's John Solomon in an interview that aired Wednesday that U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch gave him a do not prosecute list during their first meeting.
“Unfortunately, from the first meeting with the U.S. ambassador in Kiev, [Yovanovitch] gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute,” Lutsenko, who took his post in 2016, told Hill.TV last week.
“My response of that is it is inadmissible. Nobody in this country, neither our president nor our parliament nor our ambassador, will stop me from prosecuting whether there is a crime,” he continued.
The State Department called Lutsenko's claim of receiving a do not prosecute list, "an outright fabrication."
“We have seen reports of the allegations," a department spokesperson told Hill.TV. "The United States is not currently providing any assistance to the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO), but did previously attempt to support fundamental justice sector reform, including in the PGO, in the aftermath of the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. When the political will for genuine reform by successive Prosecutors General proved lacking, we exercised our fiduciary responsibility to the American taxpayer and redirected assistance to more productive projects."
Hill.TV has reached out to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine for comment.
Lutsenko also said that he has not received funds amounting to nearly $4 million that the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine was supposed to allocate to his office, saying that "the situation was actually rather strange" and pointing to the fact that the funds were designated, but "never received."
“At that time we had a case for the embezzlement of the U.S. government technical assistance worth 4 million U.S. dollars, and in that regard, we had this dialogue,” he said. "At that time, [Yovanovitch] thought that our interviews of Ukrainian citizens, of Ukrainian civil servants, who were frequent visitors of the U.S. Embassy put a shadow on that anti-corruption policy."
“Actually, we got the letter from the U.S. Embassy, from the ambassador, that the money that we are speaking about [was] under full control of the U.S. Embassy, and that the U.S. Embassy did not require our legal assessment of these facts," he said. "The situation was actually rather strange because the funds we are talking about were designated for the prosecutor general's office also and we told [them] we have never seen those, and the U.S. Embassy replied there was no problem."
“The portion of the funds namely 4.4 million U.S. dollars were designated and were foreseen for the recipient Prosecutor General's office. But we have never received it,” he said.
Yovanovitch previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Armenia under former presidents Obama and George W. Bush, as well as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan under Bush. She also served as ambassador to Ukraine under Obama.
Former Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), who was at the time House Rules Committee chairman, voiced concerns about Yovanovitch in a letter to the State Department last year in which he said he had proof the ambassador had spoken of her “disdain” for the Trump administration.
— Hill.TV Staff
(video)
thanks, haffast
also see:
Shall we guess who’s on the list ???
Classic obfuscatory claptrap from the President Jarret administration.
I will get this is also tied to human trafficking and Epstein.
so, is this a whole different rip off of the Ukes than the $5 billion IMF scam where the real money is moving through several stops on the way to Cyprus, off-shore banks, etc, for laundering...???
kinda feel sorry for the poor ukes. they were easy diggins for corrupt US pols.
kinda ran into the ole “hi, I’m from the US Gummit & I’m here to help”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA—dj2-CY&t=2s
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MORE FLASHBACKS
As Russia collusion fades, Ukrainian plot to help Clinton emerges
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA%97dj2-CY&t=2s
that youtube was killed off - must have been juicy
Folks....where oh where is Democrat 2020 POTUS Candidate, Joe Biden? Yesterday or the day before he strutted out said a few word and disappeared into the wlderness from whence he came.
Biden is not available for questions, has done little campaigning, is basically hiding in the closet...kept there by his “handlers” who do not want him to open up his mouth about himself and his ex-boss, Barack Hussein Obama!!!
However, the day will soon arrive that old Joe Biden can’t hide anymore. IMHO...he is going down big time with druggie, criminal son!!!
2016, right? (That was the year this ambassador to the Ukraine was appointed to serve Obama-Biden’s regime.)
1. What was date she sent the first immunity letter to Ukraine?
2. It is not clear: When was then article released? March 2019?)
I’m glad the article is re-released for the public (it was certainly ignored last time!), but its timeline is very confusing. Perhaps deliberately confusing and combining the Obama appointments and meetings, and the Trump appointments and meetings.
HELLO FBI!!!!~! THIS IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL!!
The shit is hitting the fan!
According to UNIAN, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News:
“Ukraine Prosecutor General Lutsenko admits U.S. ambassador didn’t give him a do not prosecute list”
Proof of the deep state.
The shit is hitting the fan!
Exactly..in their zeal to unseat Trump, they’re going places where they don’t want to revisit, only this time the public is listening.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Let’s see...who was President in 2016?
NOTE: Something THAT outrageous could only be done with then-pres Obama's (a) full knowledge, and, (b) OKay'ing it.
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