Monica Crowley Lost White House Job, Now Shes Got One With Pro-Russian Oligarch

[deminks]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/14/monica-crowley-lost-white-house-job-now-she-s-got-one-with-pro-russian-oligarch.html

A would-be Trump White House appointee who withdrew in the face of plagiarism allegations is now lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian oligarch who has recently advocated greater concessions to the Russian government, according to newly filed documents.

Monica Crowley told the Justice Department's National Security Division that she will represent billionaire Victor Pinchuk in discussions with U.S. government officials “and other policy makers” regarding “issues of concern to Mr. Pinchuk.”

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Crowley’s new gig comes as European critics of Russian aggression in Ukraine worry that Pinchuk is going soft. In a December column for the Wall Street Journal, he called on Ukrainian leaders to make additional concessions to Moscow.

“The new administration in Washington can be an opportunity for Ukraine to contribute to the solution of Russia’s intervention,” he wrote. He advised that Ukraine abandon plans to join the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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In 2015, the Pinchuk Foundation paid the Trump Foundation $150,000 in exchange for a video appearance by Trump at Pinchuk’s annual Yalta European Strategy meeting. A former official in the IRS’s Exempt Organizations unit told The Daily Beast at the time that the payment raised questions about whether Trump was evading taxes by routing income through his foundation.

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[PsychoBabble]

1. when does it END?

They are like rats in your basement.

[Ilsa]

2. I wish 45 and his clan would move to Moscow and they can all be BFFs

over there. The Kochs can join the kleptocrats also.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Who knew there were so many friendly billionaires

sympathetic to Russia and milling around D.C. desperate for newly disgraced political hacks to hire?

[Angry Dragon]

4. FOLLOW THE MONEY