Ex-Ukraine prosecutor said “investigations stopped out of fear of the United States.”

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The fired prosecutor at the center of the Ukraine controversy said during a private interview with President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani earlier this year that he was told to back off an investigation involving a natural gas firm that was linked to Joe Biden’s son, according to details of that interview that were handed over to Congress by the State Department’s inspector general Wednesday.

Fox News obtained a copy of Giuliani’s notes from his January 2019 interview with fired Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin in which he claimed that his “investigations stopped out of fear of the United States.”

“Mr. Shokin attempted to continue the investigations but on or around June or July of 2015, the U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt told him that the investigation has to be handled with white gloves, which according to Mr. Shokin, that implied do nothing,” the notes from the interview stated.
The notes also claimed Shokin was told Biden had held up U.S. aid to Ukraine over the investigation.
 
Shokin, at the time, according to the interview, was investigating Mykola Zlochevsky, the former minister of ecology and natural resources of Ukraine — also the founder of Burisma. Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of the firm, which Shokin claimed was an appointment made by Zlochevsky “in order to protect himself.”

The interview purportedly conducted by Giuliani took place on Jan. 23, 2019 at an office on Park Avenue in New York City. Shokin was interviewed over the phone, and interpreters were used — one in Ukraine and one in New York, according to the notes obtained by Fox News.

In a statement to Fox News after this report was first published, Giuliani said the details were gathered before Biden announced his presidential run and the allegations were brought to him.

"I explored them as part of my duty as an attorney to show that the crimes committed, were not by my client, but by Democrats. I was not seeking to investigate Joe Biden. I was not investigating Joe Biden," Giuliani said.

He also confirmed that he brought the documents to the State Department, saying that he was disappointed they had not been investigated........

Meanwhile, the sources also shared pages of the Shokin interview with Fox News which revealed that in February 2016, prior to his firing, there were warrants placed on the accounts of “multiple people in Ukraine.”

“There were requests for information on Hunter Biden to which nothing was received,” Shokin said, according to the notes. “It is believed that Hunter Biden receives a salary, commission plus one million dollars. There were no documents or information on Hunter Biden, and Mr. Shokin stated he was warned to stop by Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt.”

The notes add that “President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko told Mr. Shokin not to investigate Burisma as it was not in the interest of Joe and/or Hunter Biden. Mr. Shokin was called into Mr. Poroshenko’s office and told that the investigation into Burisma and the Managing Director where Hunter Biden is on the board, has caused Joe Biden to hold up one billion dollars in U.S. aid to Ukraine.”

Shokin then told Giuliani, according to the notes, that “in or around April of 2016” Poroshenko “told him he had to be fired as the aid to the Ukraine was being withheld by Joe Biden.”

Biden reportedly threatened to withhold $1 billion in critical U.S. aid if Shokin was not fired.

Shokin also claimed, according to the notes, that Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch denied him visa travel to the U.S., and claimed it was because “she is close to Mr. Biden.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ukraine-prosecutor-biden-burisma-back-off-state-department-files
 
dukkha said:
did you read the article? these notes are first hand accounts from Shokin.

(Jack you are becoming a Joker)
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:) Anything that has "Fox News obtained a copy of Giuliani’s notes from his ..." is not worth the paper it's written on.
 
Jack said:
:) Anything that has "Fox News obtained a copy of Giuliani’s notes from his ..." is not worth the paper it's written on.
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these were the notes from the "urgent" meeting the State Dept IG set up today

Do you think it was odd they were leaked? :palm:
 
"WASHINGTON – Several months ago, Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, sent a dossier full of debunked allegations and political smears targeting the president’s perceived enemies to the State Department and asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...r-general-urgent-ukraine-briefing/3840218002/

"The packet was in an envelope labeled White House and addressed, in calligraphy, to Pompeo with "attn: Ruth" written underneath the secretary's name. The envelope also included folders labeled "Trump Hotel," creating another mystery."
 
Jack said:
"WASHINGTON – Several months ago, Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, sent a dossier full of debunked allegations and political smears targeting the president’s perceived enemies to the State Department and asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...r-general-urgent-ukraine-briefing/3840218002/

"The packet was in an envelope labeled White House and addressed, in calligraphy, to Pompeo with "attn: Ruth" written underneath the secretary's name. The envelope also included folders labeled "Trump Hotel," creating another mystery."
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The IG thought they were so crazy, that he wanted the house to know what kind of fake crap Rudy was sending around. The house had already figured it out and dismissed Rudy's off the wall work.
 
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