by Tyler Durden
In today’s episode of ‘Things that should have come out during the impeachment,’ just-released diplomatic memos reveal that Vice President Joe Biden’s office was warned in 2015 that the Ukrainian oligarch who hired his son, Hunter, was deemed corrupt – and that the US Justice Department had gathered evidence to support that conclusion, according to Just The News.
“I assume all have the DoJ background on Zlochevsky,” wrote former US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in Kiev in a 2015 letter to Biden’s top advisers, referring to Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky.
“The short unclas version (in non lawyer language) is that US and UK were cooperating on a case to seize his corrupt assets overseas (which had passed through the US),” Pyatt added, noting that the asset forfeiture case against the Ukrainian billionaire “fell apart” when individuals in the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office “acted to thwart the UK case.”
Talking points
Pyatt’s email also includes responses to several talking points Joe Biden’s Washington staff crafted, should he be questioned about Hunter’s role on the board of Burisma.
“Have you asked Hunter to step down from the board? Has he discussed that with you?” the talking points anticipated being asked.
“I’m not going to discuss private conversations with my family. Hunter is a private citizen and does independent work,” the memo recommended the vice president answer.
If pressed by a question asking whether Joe Biden thought “Zlochevsky is corrupt,” the talking points suggested the vice president respond, “I’m not going to get into naming names or accusing individuals.” –Just The News
As JTN notes, the New York Times published an article days after Pyatt’s email suggesting that Hunter’s role at Burisma while it remained under a corruption investigation was potentially undercutting US anti-corruption policy.
“Separately, a Russian-backed media outlet in Ukraine had written an even more scathing expose on what it called the “Ukrainian scam of the Biden family.” That article sent State officials scrambling to develop messaging for the U.S. government,” according to Just The News.
The memos, released last week by Senate committees investigating Hunter Biden, also reveal that the US Justice Department was involved in the 2014 asset forfeiture brought against Zlochevsky in the UK, right as Hunter Biden was hired to sit on the board of Burisma.
Multiple State officials have attested to the awkward appearance of conflict of interest posed by Hunter’s position on the board as the United States led efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine. In a September, 2015 speech, Pyatt railed against Ukrainian prosecutors for thwarting the UK asset forfeiture case against Zlochevsky.
Wait… what? I thought it was Trump that only had people that would not tell him when he was screwing up? Well, to hell with Pyatt… others warned the White House that this was a time bomb should, suddenly and unexpectedly, a media suddenly grew a pair and reported on REAL news.
Obama administration was warned about Hunter’s conflict of interest, but they blew it off… then Biden told Ukraine to kill the investigation of Burisma
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/10/18/breaking-impeachment-witness-says-tried-warn-ukraine-influence-biden/
No concern from the Obama administration that the VP’s son was sitting on the board of a foreign company accused of corruption
They were warned and, unless they were as stupid as most of us believe they really are, knew full well how utterly stinking dirty it looked. But, should they actually get caught, they knew they could lie and even the media then (not the one we have now that only asks questions about ice cream flavors) could easily be juked out of delving too deeply into massive corruption.
EVERYONE should have been aware of this corruption before the election. It is the corrupt liberal media that made Biden fraud possible.