Graham requests Biden-Ukraine records from State Department

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...P8Q?li=BBnb7Kz


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) requested records from the State Department related to former Vice President Joe Biden’s efforts to oust a Ukrainian prosecutor in 2016 on Thursday.
The letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo comes as Republicans seek to train scrutiny on Biden’s actions in Ukraine amid impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump over his own efforts to pressure Ukraine’s government to investigate his would-be rival for the White House.

Graham is seeking records related to phone calls that occurred in February and March 2016 between Biden and Ukraine’s then-president, Petro Poroshenko, regarding U.S. demands that the country fire its top prosecutor. The prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was unpopular with Western leaders, who viewed him as corrupt, and Biden was representing official U.S. policy and that of allied governments.
At the time, Biden’s son, Hunter, held a lucrative board position with Burisma holdings, a Ukrainian gas company. Burisma, and its owner, Mykola Zlochesky, had faced investigative scrutiny from Shokin’s office, presenting a potential conflict of interest for Biden.
Biden’s side has said that investigations into Burisma were long dormant by the time he secured Shokin’s firing in late March 2016. On Thursday, a key witness in the impeachment probe, U.S. Embassy Kyiv official David Holmes, said the same during his testimony.
But in February 2016, Shokin’s office seized Zlochevsky’s property as part of a corruption investigation, according to a report from the time from the news service Interfax-Ukraine.
Graham’s letter notes that Hunter Biden began following Tony Blinken, a longtime Biden aide then serving as deputy secretary of state, on the day of the Interfax report and suggests the two may have discussed Shokin’s investigations. Neither the State Department, Blinken nor the Biden campaign immediately responded to a request for comment.
The letter from Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, seeks all communications between Biden’s office and Poroshenko’s office between the news of the raid and Shokin’s March 29 firing.
It also seeks records related to a meeting between another Burisma board member, Devon Archer, and then-Secretary of State John Kerry on March 2, 2016.
Archer, a business partner of Hunter Biden’s, was also a close friend and business partner of Kerry’s stepson, Christopher Heinz.
News of the Archer-Kerry meeting, as well as Hunter Biden’s Twitter follow of Blinken were first reported by the conservative journalist John Solomon based on State Department documents he obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
Despite the letter and their partisan differences, Graham and Biden have a history of warm relations. Graham became visibly emotional when talking about his former Senate colleague in 2015.
“He’s the nicest person I think I’ve ever met in public life.” Graham said at the time. “He is as good a man as God ever created.”


This may get very interesting
The teflon Dems may be about to lose their immunity for their crimes
Their stuff is aboaut to stick

LOL

Their stuff is aboaut to stick

LOL Originally Posted by oeb11

No such thing as Teflon when everyone is slinging stones from all directions.

wtf - so that is the DPST recipe for your insanity!!
Water purifiers are cheap and easily available - even in Mom's basement.

Schiff is next ..


REVEALED: Adam Schiff Connected to Both Companies Named in $7.4 Billion Burisma-US-Ukraine Corruption Case

http://revolutionradio.org/2019/11/2...rruption-case/


Thursday, November 21, 2019
By Paul Martin
by Jim Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com
November 21, 2019


As reported on Wednesday the head of Burisma Holdings was indicted this week in Ukraine!

Ukrainian Prosecutor General indicted Burisma owner Nikolai Zlochevsky.

The claim alleges that Hunter Biden and his partners received $16.5 million over several years for their ‘services’ in Ukraine.


Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden took a lucrative post on the Burisma Board in 2014. Hunter Biden was making millions from the corrupt Ukrainian oil and gas company.


New memos released earlier this month revealed Burisma Holdings, Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian natural gas company, pressured the Obama State Department to help end the corruption investigation during the 2016 election cycle just one month before then-Vice President Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor probing his son Hunter.

Joe Biden bragged about getting Viktor Shokin fired during a 2018 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.


The media immediately covered for Biden and said his targeting of Mr. Shokin was totally unrelated to the prosecutor’s corruption investigation into Hunter and Burisma Holdings.


Burisma Holdings actually name-dropped Hunter Biden when requesting help from the State Department.

According to CD Media last week former Ukrainian official Oleksandr Onyshchenko said Hunter Biden was receiving “off the books” payments from Burisma in the millions.


Earlier this month the chief of Burisma Holdings was indicted in Ukraine. He has gone missing.


According to CD Media last week former Ukrainian official Oleksandr Onyshchenko said Hunter Biden was receiving “off the books” payments from Burisma in the millions.


Earlier this month the chief of Burisma Holdings was indicted in Ukraine. He has gone missing.


https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/sta...07946935095296


Now this…
Democrat Adam Schiff is linked to both US corporations named in the $7.4 BILLION corruption case.

M3thods reported:

Schiff is connected to both BlackRock and Franklin Templeton Investments, two companies that were named in the $7.4B Burisma/US-Ukraine corruption claim that was announced…https://t.co/enhuAplCUEhttps://t.co/WuEZfwdTGt pic.twitter.com/rzjVyDibGd
— M3thods (@M2Madness) November 21, 2019

Here are US government documents that show Schiff’s links to and donations from BlackRock and Franklin Templeton Investments.

And here is a mention of BlackRock and Franklin Templeton Investments from reports on Wednesday.


Will Adam Schiff and Democrats call this $7+ billion corruption case a conspiracy too?
Someone needs to get Schiff on the record for his ties to these two companies.

Did Rudy give that horseshit to you Wacko?

Hunter Biden-Linked Company Received $130 Million in Special Federal Loans While Joe Biden Was VP – Routed Profits Through Cayman Islands

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...ayman-islands/


by Cristina Laila November 21, 2019


Rosemont Capital, an investment firm tied to Hunter Biden received over $130 million in special federal bailout money while Joe Biden was Vice President.


The profits were then routed through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.


Recall, Rosemont Capital was run by Hunter Biden’s business partners Chris Heinz and Devon Archer.


Hunter Biden-Linked Company Received $130 Million in Special Federal Loans While Joe Biden Was VP – Routed Profits Through Cayman Islands

by Cristina Laila November 21, 2019 38 Comments


Rosemont Capital, an investment firm tied to Hunter Biden received over $130 million in special federal bailout money while Joe Biden was Vice President.
The profits were then routed through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.


Recall, Rosemont Capital was run by Hunter Biden’s business partners Chris Heinz and Devon Archer.


The Washington Examiner reported:

An investment firm linked to Hunter Biden received over $130 million in federal bailout loans while his father Joe Biden was vice president and routed profits through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, according to federal banking and corporate records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.


Financial experts said the offshore corporate structure could have been used to shield earnings from U.S. taxes.


Rosemont Capital, an investment firm at the center of Hunter Biden’s much-scrutinized financial network, was one of the companies approved to participate in the 2009 federal loan program known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF.


Under the program, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank issued billions of dollars in highly favorable loans to select investors who agreed to buy bonds that banks were struggling to offload, including bundled college and auto loans.


Biden, Heinz, and Archer incorporated Rosemont Seneca Partners in Delaware on June 25, 2009. The “alternative investment and market advisory firm” was an offshoot of Rosemont Capital, which held a 50% stake in the new venture. Rosemont Seneca and Rosemont Capital shared the same office address in lower Manhattan and the same New York phone number, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents. Three weeks after Rosemont Seneca was incorporated, a subsidiary of Rosemont Capital, called Rosemont TALF SPV, received $23.5 million in federal loans through the TALF program. This included $13.4 million to invest in student loans and $11.1 million to invest in subprime auto loans. Over five months, the company received a total of $130 million from the program in multiple installments for investments in subprime credit cards and residential mortgages.

Federal records report that 177 firms benefited from TALF — most of them had deep connections to Wall Street and Washington and there was virtually no exposure to the borrowers.


The borrowers either profited off of the bonds and if not, the feds would take over the depreciated bonds with no exposure to the borrowers — it was a win for the borrowers regardless of the performance.


To no one’s surprise Hunter’s daddy Joe Biden was a huge supporter of the bailout (started under George Bush) and was later expanded under Barack Obama.


Biden argued in 2009, that if not for the federal bailout, we would have gone into a depression.


Hunter Biden also admittedly made millions of dollars sitting on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company because his daddy was Vice President.


It sure pays to be a Biden.


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Read the rest here.


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/p...e-biden-was-vp


Hunter Biden-linked company received $130M in special federal loans while Joe Biden was vice president

An investment firm linked to Hunter Biden received over $130 million in federal bailout loans while his father Joe Biden was vice president and routed profits through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, according to federal banking and corporate records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.


Financial experts said the offshore corporate structure could have been used to shield earnings from U.S. taxes.


Rosemont Capital, an investment firm at the center of Hunter Biden’s much-scrutinized financial network, was one of the companies approved to participate in the 2009 federal loan program known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF.


Under the program, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank issued billions of dollars in highly favorable loans to select investors who agreed to buy bonds that banks were struggling to offload, including bundled college and auto loans.


According to federal records, 177 firms participated in TALF, many of them well connected in Washington or on Wall Street. For investors, there was little risk and a high chance of reward. The Federal Reserve funded as much as 90% of the investments. If the bonds were profitable, the borrowers benefited. If not, the department agreed to take over the depreciated assets with no repercussions for the borrowers.


“It's very complicated to become qualified as a TALF borrower or as a TALF fund, if you will,” Carol Pepper, a wealth management specialist, told Forbes in 2009. “But that's an example of where, if you can get into a TALF fund, you can benefit from this government program.”


Under the terms for the program, any U.S. company looking to invest in select categories of bonds was eligible to apply for the loans. However, the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve maintained the “right to reject a borrower for any reason,” and the internal selection process was criticized by some lawmakers as opaque and open to corruption.


“How can my constituents in Vermont get some of that money? Who makes the decisions? Do you guys sit around in a room — do you make it? Are there conflicts of interest?” Sen. Bernie Sanders asked Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke at a March 3, 2009, Senate hearing. “Do you have to be a large, greedy, reckless financial institution to apply for these monies?”


Joe Biden was a key advocate for the financial bailout, which was approved under the Bush administration and expanded under President Barack Obama. He delayed his Senate resignation in January 2009 to cast his final vote to increase funding for the Troubled Asset Relief Program before taking office as vice president.


“These guys are not the most likable guys in the world,” Biden said about the banks and hedge funds aided by the government intervention. "But here are the facts ... Had we not bailed out the largest bank institutions in the world, there would have been a flat-out depression.”


One of the firms that benefited was Rosemont Capital, a company led by Hunter Biden’s business partners, Chris Heinz and Devon Archer. The firm received the loans at a crucial time for Hunter Biden. The younger Biden had stepped down from his lobbying business in late 2008, reportedly due to pressure on his father’s vice presidential campaign.


Biden, Heinz, and Archer incorporated Rosemont Seneca Partners in Delaware on June 25, 2009. The “alternative investment and market advisory firm” was an offshoot of Rosemont Capital, which held a 50% stake in the new venture. Rosemont Seneca and Rosemont Capital shared the same office address in lower Manhattan and the same New York phone number, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents. Three weeks after Rosemont Seneca was incorporated, a subsidiary of Rosemont Capital, called Rosemont TALF SPV, received $23.5 million in federal loans through the TALF program. This included $13.4 million to invest in student loans and $11.1 million to invest in subprime auto loans. Over five months, the company received a total of $130 million from the program in multiple installments for investments in subprime credit cards and residential mortgages.


“This is a great example of the suspicion of many Americans that these bailouts were used to benefit connected insiders while ordinary Americans went broke,” said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center, an organization that was critical of TALF at the time.


Although the government stopped issuing the loans at the end of 2009, the names of the well connected borrowers and investors were later released — prompting new criticism from lawmakers and the press. In April 2011, Rolling Stone reported that millions in TALF loans had been issued to the wife of Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack, Miami Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga, and Wall Street titan John Paulson, dubbing the program “welfare for the rich.”


“Our jaws are literally dropping as we're reading this,” Warren Gunnels, an aide to Sanders, told Rolling Stone. “Every one of these transactions is outrageous.”


Sanders also raised concerns that borrowers were using the program to evade taxes. His office staff compiled a list of over 100 TALF investors based in the Cayman Islands and other known tax havens.


“It has been estimated that each year corporations and wealthy individuals avoid approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes through the use of abusive and illegal tax shelters,” wrote Sanders in a letter to Bernanke. “Why would the Fed lend to material investors located in the Cayman Islands?”


Federal Reserve records show Rosemont Capital was one of the companies that set up an offshore limited partnership, called “Rosemont TALF Investment Fund LP,” to participate in the TALF program. The fund was incorporated in the Cayman Islands on May 14, 2009, and dissolved on Nov. 14, 2014, according to corporate records in the British territory. The fund was managed by a Delaware-based subsidiary of Rosemont called “Rosemont TALF GP,” SEC records show.


Another investor in Rosemont’s TALF fund, called “Rosemont TALF Opportunities Fund II,” was also based in the Cayman Islands. Additional Rosemont TALF investors included two Greek shipping magnates, a California class action attorney and a financial trust based in Liberia.


Tax experts said the Cayman Islands were a popular location at the time for hedge funds and corporations to set up subsidiaries in order to avoid paying certain U.S. taxes. Didier Jacobs, a senior policy adviser at Oxfam America who focuses on international finance, said an estimated $2.7 trillion was parked in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens prior to the U.S. tax reform in 2017.


“As long as it was sitting there, it was not taxed. That’s why there was a lot of money sitting there in the Cayman Islands,” said Jacobs.


Steve Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said the use of an offshore company could also help investment firms reduce the tax liability for foreign or tax-exempt investors who could otherwise be subject to U.S. taxes.


Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the most likely reason for setting up a company in the Cayman Islands would be to take advantage of its tax laws.


“It seems like a pretty basic ask that any recipient of these TALF loans would act in certain ways. And one of those ways would be to not organize their businesses to avoid taxes in the Caymans,” said Gardner.

looks like dems are going to the turd farm.

Did Rudy give that horseshit to you Wacko? Originally Posted by WTF

DPST fear - smells like Colorado Supermax !!!

Rosemont Capital, an investment firm at the center of Hunter Biden’s much-scrutinized financial network, was one of the companies approved to participate in the 2009 federal loan program known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF.


Under the program, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank issued billions of dollars in highly favorable loans to select investors who agreed to buy bonds that banks were struggling to offload, including bundled college and auto loans.



The borrowers either profited off of the bonds and if not, the feds would take over the depreciated bonds with no exposure to the borrowers — it was a win for the borrowers regardless of the performance.


To no one’s surprise Hunter’s daddy Joe Biden was a huge supporter of the bailout (started under George Bush) and was later expanded under Barack Obama. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

when you post this, you indict scores of rich Republicans who benefitted from this program that fleeced America. Bush collapsed the economy, then his wealthy friends made millions under this program that shut out "ordinary" people. sure, the Bidens are corrupt as Hell, and both should be in prison. but this article gets me behind Sanders and Warren, who scream the loudest against corruption, more than any current politicians. granted, they are silent about Hunter Biden, but they also understand that Biden is but one of hundreds of super-wealthy and connected folks, who made out like Bandits.

CT - if the ardent socialists win the Congress and POTUS - the corruption and crime will dwarf any ever in the history of the Country.

You are welcome to support the socialist totalitarians who made millions hawking socialist policies to foolish Americans.

CT - if the ardent socialists win the Congress and POTUS - the corruption and crime will dwarf any ever in the history of the Country.

You are welcome to support the socialist totalitarians who made millions hawking socialist policies to foolish Americans. Originally Posted by oeb11

I don't know.. of course corruption has existed in many forms, and "strong government" supporters have benefitted. but I think there is somebody out there who would truly reduce corruption significantly.. I think Sanders would, I doubt Warren would reduce it, just shift it.

Interesting point - I think Bernie is as dirty as any of the politicians .

- i do not believe his health will stand up to another year of campaigning, much less a term as POTUS.

Fuck, boys! They oughta call this forum the Conspiracy Forum, eh?

Captain America, you're outdone yourself.

Interesting point - I think Bernie is as dirty as any of the politicians .

- i do not believe his health will stand up to another year of campaigning, much less a term as POTUS. Originally Posted by oeb11

maybe right about his health. same for Trump, maybe, we still don't know why he went to Walter Reed last Saturday. we know what the after-the-fact press release said, but that sounded like Bullshit to me.

why do you think Bernie is dirty? a hunch? because Bernie would be almost the only "clean" candidate EVER?