Very enlightening article. What a fucking cesspool. These two businessmen, Fruman and Parnas, are the same people described in my slidstvo.info link above. They're Giuliani's clients and also his point men in the Ukraine in his attempt to get the Ukrainian government to dig up or fabricate dirt on Joe Biden. These fuckers are trying to replace the head of the Ukrainian national oil and gas company with someone they think they can control and Rick Perry is helping them along. Their plan is to then sell LNG to the Ukraine. This sounds like fucking Africa, meaning out-in-the-open, extreme corruption. Instead of buying LNG from companies like Chevron and Exxon, Ukraine's going to buy it through a couple of shady Ukrainian/American businessmen.
Apparently Giuliani, Parnas and Fruman are also the main reason our Ukrainian ambassador was replaced - they couldn't have someone in that position who was fighting corruption. Trump said the reason he was on the call with the Ukrainian president Zelensky was because of Rick Perry. Well, it sounds like what Perry (and Giuliani) wanted him to do on the call was potentially worse than what the Democrats believe actually happened. Trump didn't take the bait. He needs to fire Giuliani, stop the Biden obsession and get on with running the country and campaigning for re-election. Giuliani's main interest in the Ukraine likely isn't "helping" Trump, but rather making money, for himself and/or his clients.
Originally Posted by Tiny
There have been new developments in this fascinating story. Parnas and Fruman were arrested day before yesterday for campaign finance violations. Among other things they were channeling donations from a Ukrainian national to U.S. politicians and disguising them as having come from Americans. They contributed to Pete Sessions' campaign for U.S. Congress and in return Sessions tried to get the U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, removed. Their motivation certainly was not to remove an ambassador unfriendly to Trump. It was to pave the way to install directors in the Ukrainian national oil company who they could corrupt.
Yovanovitch is testifying on capitol hill in a closed door session today. Her opening statement was leaked, and she says the White House and the president were trying to remove her from office since the Summer of 2018 and were finally successful.
Meanwhile more information is coming out about Dmytro Firtash, the Ukrainian oligarch who figures prominently in conspiracy theories, and his relationship to Parnas and others. Firtash is holed up in Vienna, while the USA tries to extradite him.
What's ironic, Firtash was prominent in a conspiracy theory proposed by some Trump supporters, even though Paul Manafort worked for him. Firtash was represented by Lanny Davis, a prominent Clinton lawyer. Now he's hired Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, who are close to Trump. Parnas is helping out Firtash's new attorneys by translating. It appears that Firtash may be working with Giuliani, Parnas and Fruman to generate dirt on the Bidens, presumably in return for help with his extradition case in the U.S. When Fruman and Parnas were arrested, they were on the way to Vienna, and there's speculation it was to meet with Firtash.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/03...achment-biden/
With friends like Fruman, Parnas and Giuliani, who needs enemies.