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  • Ukrainian who meddled against Trump in 2016 is now under Russia-corruption cloud

    05/16/2019 8:05:27 PM PDT · by bitt · 13 replies
    The Hill ^ | 5/16/2019 | john Solomon
    What happens when the face of a country’s anti-corruption movement suddenly is investigated for the sort of bribery he once condemned? Ukraine, a U.S. ally and neighboring foe of Russia, is soon to find out. And it’s a case with implications in the United States, where the fallout from the unproven Trump-Russia collusion scandal has engulfed several Ukrainians. The country’s chief corruption prosecutor on Thursday opened an investigation into “suspicions” that Serhiy Leshchenko, a crusading anti-corruption member of Ukraine’s parliament and former investigative journalist, accepted bribes in 2016 from a Russian source that enabled him to buy a luxury condo...
  • BOMBSHELL: Kash Patel Uncovers Obama Deputy AG Sally Yates’ Email Ordering FBI Agents to Shut Down Clinton Foundation Corruption Investigation — “SHUT IT DOWN”

    08/13/2025 4:06:19 PM PDT · by bitt · 80 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | Aug. 13, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft
    Investigative journalist John Solomon has uncovered a smoking-gun email from Obama’s Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates explicitly ordering FBI agents to shut down a criminal corruption probe into the Clinton Foundation. Thanks to Judicial Watch, the American public was made aware of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Hillary Clinton conducted official business on a non-government server so she could hide her Clinton Foundation pay-to-play while she was head of the Department of State. According to emails obtained by Judicial Watch, Hillary Clinton gave preferential treatment to Clinton Foundation donors while she was Secretary of State. In fact, Judge Royce...
  • (Graybar Bob) Menendez is in jail, but his foreign bribers are still cashing in. Why? | Opinion

    08/13/2025 5:57:35 PM PDT · by Libloather · 3 replies
    nj ^ | 8/10/25 | Tom Malinowski
    In New Jersey, we think of the fall of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez as a story of old fashioned corruption — a politician taking gifts for favors. For that crime, Menendez is now serving an 11 year prison sentence. And state officials have continued to pile on consequences, with Attorney General Matt Platkin filing a lawsuit to have it judicially confirmed that Menendez is “forever disqualified” from holding public office, and Assemblywoman Aura Dunn promoting a bill that would take away state pensions from former officials convicted of misconduct in office. But there is an equally disturbing side of...
  • Iran's Oil Mafia (pro-regime Iranian lobby in U.S.)

    04/16/2007 5:08:26 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 9 replies · 552+ views
    Frontpagemagazine.com ^ | April 16, 2007 | Hassan Daioleslam
    Iran's Oil Mafia April 16, 2007 Frontpagemagazine.com Hassan Daioleslam Robert William (Bob) Ney is a current federal prisoner and a former Ohio Congressman from 1995 until November 3, 2006. Ney pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff lobbying and bribery scandal. Ney reportedly received bribes from Abramoff, other lobbyists, and two foreign businessmen - a felon and an arms dealer - in exchange for using his position to advance their interests. Conspicuously missing from this dossier of disservice to the country was Ney’s assistance in the creation of a Washington-based lobbying...
  • Hunter Biden’s Favorite Prostitute Charged With Manslaughter

    06/03/2025 7:50:58 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 45 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | June 03, 2025 | Staff
    One of Hunter Biden’s favorite prostitutes and drug buddies was charged with manslaughter in Nevada this year after allegedly bringing drugs into a jail, leading to another inmate’s death. Cheryl Ann Deboves was arraigned on involuntary manslaughter and drug possession charges in Clark County, Nevada in April, records show. The case was moved to state court, and she pleaded guilty last month to possession of controlled substances by an inmate, with a sentence of between 12 and 30 months. Deboves was a recurring figure on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which shows former President Joe Biden’s son engaging in orgies with her,...
  • Chinese-Government Agents Tried to Bribe the IRS in Anti–Falun Gong Plot: DOJ

    05/26/2023 5:39:15 PM PDT · by Right Wing Vegan · 12 replies
    National Review ^ | 5/26/2023 | Jimmy Quinn
    Two men working on behalf of the Chinese government’s Ministry of Public Security attempted to bribe an IRS agent in a scheme intended to further Beijing’s harassment of Falun Gong believers, the Justice Department revealed in a criminal complaint unveiled today. The defendants were arrested today in California on charges including acting as unregistered foreign agents, money laundering, and bribery. “The Chinese government has yet again attempted, and failed, to target critics of the PRC here in the United States,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement this afternoon. “The Justice Department will continue to investigate, disrupt, and prosecute...
  • Ukraine's defence minister sacked as Zelensky prepares 'new approach'

    09/03/2023 5:42:18 PM PDT · by Mariner · 35 replies
    The Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | September 3rd, 2023 | James Kilner
    Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked his wartime minister of defence and replaced him with a trusted political ally who took part in failed peace talks last year with Russia.The dismissal of Oleksii Reznikov, who has headed Ukraine’s defence ministry since Russia invaded in February 2022, needs to be approved by the Ukrainian parliament.“I believe that the Ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society at large,” Mr Zelensky said.The 57-year-old Mr Reznikov became one of the most high-profile Ukrainians of the war, representing Ukraine at Nato meetings and dozens of bilateral talks to secure...
  • FBI informant pleads guilty to lying about $10M Biden bribery payments to Joe, Hunter

    12/12/2024 10:55:22 AM PST · by Libloather · 24 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/12/24 | Josh Christenson, Ryan King
    A former FBI informant pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying about a $10 million bribe that a Ukrainian businessman paid to then-vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter to “protect” his firm from a looming corruption investigation. Alexander Smirnov, 43, entered into a plea agreement with special counsel David Weiss and confessed to having created “a false and fictitious record” as part of a multi-year federal probe into the Bidens. The falsehoods included the bribery allegation, which was memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form in 2020 and released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last year, and other aspects of...
  • JUST IN: Kash Patel Announces Arrest of Two Active Duty Army Soldier and Former Soldier for “Stealing America’s Defense Intelligence Capabilities and Empowering Adversaries Like China”

    03/06/2025 8:06:38 PM PST · by bitt · 45 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 3/6/2025 | jordan conradson
    Kash Patel announced on Thursday night that three individuals have been arrested by the FBI and other agencies “for theft of government property and a bribery scheme.” According to a DOJ press release, “Jian Zhao, and Li Tian, active-duty U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, along with Ruoyu Duan, a former U.S. Army soldier, were arrested today following indictments by federal grand juries in the District of Oregon and the Western District of Washington.” ” Tian and Duan were charged in the District of Oregon for conspiring to commit bribery and theft of government property. Zhao was charged...
  • Burisma Paid Former Ukrainian President To Suppress Biden Investigation and Bribed FBI Agents

    10/18/2019 3:39:37 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 31 replies
    CD Media ^ | October 18th 2019 | L. Todd Wood
    KYIV — Now we know why the Democrats are so rabidly going after POTUS with a scam impeachment. CD Media has been on the ground in Kyiv for some time now investigating corruption of the U.S. State Department in Ukraine, along with multiple Democratic Party operatives in-country, who have been involved in a massive money laundering operation of IMF aid funds, along with corrupt Ukrainian officials, including former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. What we have to say is truly shocking. The theft totals in the billions of dollars. In short, multiple intelligence sources have produced evidence which will soon be...
  • Menendez Stuns Reporters with Remarks About Trump After Being Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison (VIDEO)

    01/30/2025 6:42:02 AM PST · by Red Badger · 44 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | January 29, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    As reported earlier, former Democrat Senator Bob Menendez, 71, sobbed in court as he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for bribery and corruption. A tearful Menendez sobbed as he begged SDNY Judge Sidney Stein to have mercy on him. The judge showed no mercy to “Gold Bar Bob” and sentenced him to 11 years. Last summer a jury convicted Senator Bob Menendez on all bribery and corruption charges. The jury returned the verdict following a 9-week trial. Menendez did not testify. In October 2023 Bob Menendez was charged with acting as a foreign agent in a superseding indictment....
  • Pentagon Inspector General: Joe Biden is Hiding Classified Documents Detailing Side Deals He Made with Taliban and Against US Troops

    03/02/2023 7:20:38 PM PST · by bitt · 41 replies
    gateway pundit ^ | 3/2/2023 | jim hoft
    A report from Fox News back in 2021 highlighted the scope of the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan as the Taliban took control of 75,000 US vehicles, 200 US aircraft, 600,000 US weapons, and $85 billion in military funding. This is like Obama’s Fast and Furious gun-running scandal on steroids. Today the Taliban is patrolling the streets of Kabul in US humvees. The big story might be the pallets of cash the Taliban have been posting videos of pallets of weapons and stacks of $100 bills they have seized. Here is a more complete list of US equipment now controlled by...
  • Biden investigation: Grassley releases FBI document accusing Joe and Hunter Biden of bribery scheme

    07/20/2023 10:11:49 AM PDT · by CFW · 46 replies
    Washington examiner ^ | 7/20/23 | Ashley Oliver
    Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Thursday released the now-infamous FBI form that contains a witness's account of President Joe Biden allegedly partaking in a bribery scheme when he was vice president. Grassley published in full the lightly redacted FD-1023 form, the contents of which several congressional Republicans have seen but that the public has not. The Iowa Republican accused the FBI in an accompanying statement of seeking to “obfuscate and redact” it before the bureau ultimately cooperated with congressional Republicans to show it to them. “The American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians...
  • Hunter Biden informant charged with lying had high-level Russian contacts: Documents

    02/20/2024 7:39:41 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 13 replies
    ABC ^ | 02 20 2024 | Mike Levine, Lucien Bruggeman, and Alexander Mallin
    The informant accused of fabricating a story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden taking $5 million each in bribes allegedly had high-level Russian intelligence contacts, according to newly filed court documents. In the filing, Special Counsel David Weiss reveals that after his arrest last week, Alexander Smirnov told the FBI "that officials with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story" about Hunter Biden. Prosecutors argued in their filing Smirnov should be held pending trial, with Weiss saying that Smirnov's claims he has active contacts with "multiple foreign intelligence agencies" and had planned to leave the U.S....
  • Pathetic Kamala Harris spent $1.5 billion — including on bribes to interviewers ($100 million per week)

    11/25/2024 1:08:10 AM PST · by Libloather · 26 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/24/22 | Post Editorial Board
    Kamala Harris spent $1.5 billion on her failed presidential campaign, hemorrhaging on average $100 million per week — proving that she and her claque are as bad at managing money as they are at generating coherent policy ideas. The big-ticket items: - $900,000 to advertise on the outside screen of the Las Vegas Sphere (Harris ended up losing Nevada). - A cool million to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions for Harris’ splashy townhall event with the media queen. - Ten million for a series of Gen X-bait conferences with the likes of Jon Bon Jovi (Harris ended up losing Gen X)....
  • Hunter Biden Sent Direct Monthly Payments To Joe Biden From Bank Account For Chinese Money, Comer Reveals

    12/04/2023 12:50:52 PM PST · by Red Badger · 15 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | December 04, 2023 12:05 PM ET | JAMES LYNCH - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
    Hunter Biden sent his father, President Joe Biden, monthly payments from the bank account he used to receive money from Chinese business associates, newly released bank records show. House Oversight Committee James Comer shared a video Monday on Twitter revealing redacted bank records containing direct payments to Joe Biden from Hunter Biden’s Owasco P.C. bank account. “Today, the House Oversight Committee is releasing subpoenaed bank records that show Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco PC, made direct monthly payments to Joe Biden. This wasn’t a payment from Hunter Biden’s personal account but an account for his corporation that received payments from...
  • The United States Announces New $400 Million Defense Aid Package for Ukraine

    10/21/2024 5:39:24 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 67 replies
    president.gov.ua/ ^ | 10-21-24 | President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy
    The United States has allocated a new defense aid package to Ukraine totaling $400 million. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced this during a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. This package will include ammunition, military equipment, and weaponry. The Secretary assured that support under the security agreement between the United States and Ukraine will continue. Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed gratitude for the military assistance package and for all the support the U.S. has provided since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
  • North Carolina Agrees To Purchase Several Hunter Biden Paintings In Return For U.S. Aid

    10/01/2024 12:47:42 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 14 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 9-30-24 | Babylon Bee
    As disaster response efforts ramped up following the devastation of Hurricane Helene, North Carolina announced it had agreed to purchase several Hunter Biden paintings in return for U.S. aid. While President Biden had already approved North Carolina's request to have the crisis declared a "major disaster" and authorized federal assistance, the state's leaders reportedly believed they would receive far more federal funding if they agreed to buy some of Hunter's paintings. "We know how things work with this administration," said North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. "While we're certainly grateful for the president's willingness to provide us with the assistance we...
  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted after campaign corruption investigation

    09/26/2024 5:17:52 AM PDT · by woodbutcher1963 · 46 replies
    Fox News ^ | 9/25/24 | Michael Ruiz, Greg Whener
    A Manhattan grand jury has indicted New York Mayor Eric Adams on federal criminal charges, multiple sources familiar confirmed to Fox News. The details about the indictment remain under seal. Multiple sources have confirmed to Fox News that the indictment could be unsealed as early as tomorrow. The FBI and Department of Justice are declining to comment on the matter, and it is unclear who Adams has retained as his personal attorney. "I always knew that if I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target — and a target I became," Adams said in a...
  • Moderna’s spending cuts, pipeline shakeup leave doubts about a rebound, analysts say

    09/13/2024 10:41:56 AM PDT · by Vendome · 12 replies
    MSN ^ | 9/13/2024 | Eleanor Laise
    Moderna Inc.’s cost-reduction plans, pipeline cuts and reined-in financial guidance, unveiled Thursday, triggered a wave of downgrades as analysts focused on longer timelines to launch some products and questioned when the company will return to profitability.One key concern: The company’s full-year 2025 revenue guidance, issued Thursday, is nearly 8% lower, at the midpoint, than its full-year 2024 guidance — which was recently trimmed back. The 2025 forecast, on the heels of the 2024 guidance cut issued when Moderna reported second-quarter earnings, “is likely making investors lose confidence” and battering the stock, Evercore ISI analyst Cory Kasimov said in a research...