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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFYI - handy timeline to refute RWNJ/MAGAt claims re: Biden/Burisma
Timeline: Trump, Giuliani, Biden, and Ukrainegate (updated)
https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/
Some key passages
President Trump and Rudy Giuliani have cited that boast repeatedly as proof that Biden admitted pushing for Shokins firing, even though Biden was calling for the prosecutor to be fired because he wasnt pursuing corruption cases vigorously enough.
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Vitaliy Kasko, a former deputy prosecutor general who had worked under Shokin and resigned in frustration at his stymying of corruption investigations, told Bloomberg News (in a May 2019 interview) that the offices probe into Burisma Holdings had been long dormant by the time Joe Biden issued his ultimatum in 2016. There was no pressure from anyone from the U.S. to close cases against Burisma owner Zlochevskiy, Bloomberg quoted Kasko as saying. It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015, Kasko said.
Shokin was not investigating. He didnt want to investigate Burisma, Daria Kaleniuk a leading Ukrainian anti-corruption advocate, told the Washington Post. And Shokin was fired not because he wanted to do that investigation, but quite to the contrary, because he failed that investigation.
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Vitaliy Kasko, a former deputy prosecutor general who had worked under Shokin and resigned in frustration at his stymying of corruption investigations, told Bloomberg News (in a May 2019 interview) that the offices probe into Burisma Holdings had been long dormant by the time Joe Biden issued his ultimatum in 2016. There was no pressure from anyone from the U.S. to close cases against Burisma owner Zlochevskiy, Bloomberg quoted Kasko as saying. It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015, Kasko said.
Shokin was not investigating. He didnt want to investigate Burisma, Daria Kaleniuk a leading Ukrainian anti-corruption advocate, told the Washington Post. And Shokin was fired not because he wanted to do that investigation, but quite to the contrary, because he failed that investigation.
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FYI - handy timeline to refute RWNJ/MAGAt claims re: Biden/Burisma (Original Post)
Roland99
Nov 2019
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OKNancy
(41,832 posts)1. I had heard of this site, but never bothered to read it... Wow!
That takes a while to read ( I skimmed just now, but will go back). It gives a clear timeline of events. Very helpful
Roland99
(53,342 posts)2. Yeah. It's a recent find for me. Seems well-researched
SunSeeker
(51,555 posts)3. K & R & Bookmarked!