one of McCain's former campaign managers worked on Yanukovych's campaign. The lawfirm Trouth and Cacheris got the contract to investigage Yulia and her party.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's administration has hired a “dream team” of U.S. lawyers and private investigators with a track record of defending the country’s oligarchs and even ex-President Leonid Kuchma. Their current mission: To uncover proof of massive abuse by the government’s No. 1 foe, former premier and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, whom top administration officials have already accused of misspending billions of dollars in state funds.
The government hired high-profile U.S. law firm Trout Cacheris on May 5 to audit Ukraine’s spending under Tymoshenko’s management between 2008 and 2010. Trout Cacheris’s star is criminal defense lawyer Plato Cacheris. In addition to defending Monica Lewinsky in ex-U.S. President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal, Cacheris has also represented Aldrich Ames, the CIA agent who was caught passing on secrets to the Soviet KGB spy agency.
Akin Gump has 14 offices around the world and employs a team of multilingual lawyers and political insiders. Its co-founder, Robert S. Strauss, has advised and represented three American presidents: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Under the elder Bush, Strauss served as an ambassador to the Soviet Union and then Russia.
In Ukraine, Akin Gump lawyers had for years represented the interests of two of Ukraine’s richest oligarchs and strongest backers of Yanukovych: Party of Regions deputy, Rinat Akhmetov, and gas tycoon Dmytro Firtash.
The law firm has defended the reputations of these men, who got rich in the years of crony capitalism that followed Ukrainian independence. Sometimes the firms pressured or threatened lawsuits against journalists who wrote critical reports.
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/us-firms-hired-for-probe-67370.html
Recall that Yanukovych was, as the New York Times put in in 2007, “often portrayed as the archvillain” of Ukraine’s 2004 “Orange Revolution.” Yanukovych ostensibly won the presidential election that year, but the race was denounced as fraudulent and widespread protests prompted another election, which he lost. The following year, he hired veteran U.S. political consultant Paul Manafort, a longtime veteran of GOP politics. Perhaps not coincidentally, Yanukovich’s fortunes had changed – certainly his style did, according to reports.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2014/02/21/ukraines-long-history-with-us-political-consultants-and-lobbyists
That article also states that former Clinton campaign adviser worked for the Fatherland party reps.
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