Posted on 09/24/2019 6:52:26 AM PDT by Liz
FULL TITLE: THE IMPROPER ASSOCIATION (MAYBE CRIME) OF VICTOR PINCHUK WITH HILLARY, BILL AND CHELSEA CLINTON, COVERED UP BY THE US MEDIA, US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, AND THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
SNIP... The case of $13 million paid to the Clinton family by the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, in exchange for personal favours and escalation of the war against Russia, was reported in detail throughout 2014. Click to read the opener, and more. Early this month there has been fresh investigation of Pinchuk’s money links with the Clintons, owing to the start of Ukrainian government inquiries into the theft of billions of dollars of International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans to Ukraine – money then transferred to Ukrainian commercial banks including Pinchuk’s Credit Dnepr bank, and then loaned to offshore entities controlled by Pinchuk but apparently not repaid. Theft of the IMF money was first reported here in connection with Igor Kolomoisky’s operation of Privat Bank.
Credit Dnepr’s takings were reported here. Also on the receiving end was the IMF’s Kiev representative, Jerome Vacher. For the reporting of his relationship with Pinchuk, read this. Vacher was recently replaced in Kiev. He and the IMF management decline to explain why. Last week, in an investigation of Pinchuk, Credit Dnepr, and the Clintons, a group known as CyberBerkut published what it says were emails hacked from the files of Pinchuk operative, Thomas Weihe. He is currently listed as head of the Pinchuk Foundation board and chief executive. Read the emails here.
The BBC’s Ukrainian service reports that CyberBerkut is a “staunchly anti-Western group which takes its name from the riot police used against protesters during the unrest in Kiev that led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych. The group’s declared goal is thwarting Ukraine’s military plans and thus stopping the “genocide” that it accuses Kiev of unleashing at America’s behest. Its motto is ‘We won’t forgive or forget’, and its rhetoric closely resembles that of Russian state media.” The Wikipedia entry for CyberBerkut calls it “a modern organized group of pro-Russian hacktivists”, with a long list of cyber operations starting in March 2014. For details, read. On July 13, Wikileaks tweeted the CyberBerkut report but qualified its conclusions, calling them “alleged”.
Russian press pick-up has yet to reach the mainstream Moscow media, or the English-language outlets run by Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin press head. If it did, they might correct factual errors in the CyberBerkut report, such as the linking of Pinchuk to the Ukrainian Delta Bank. Before its collapse in March 2015, Delta was owned by Nikolai Lagun. Graham Stack’s investigation of Lagun’s looting of Delta Bank reveals plenty of crime, but no trace of Pinchuk.
The first Russian publication of the CyberBerkut report is on the Novorussian website, Colonel Cassad; this is no more than a re-publication of the original text. This is how CyberBerkut charts the relationship between the Pinchuk outlays and Clinton receipts:
CLICK TO ENLARGE Source: https://cyber-berkut.org/img/ch.jpg The evidence of the movement of IMF money through Credit Dnepr into the offshores, and from Pinchuk pockets into Clinton pockets, has yet to be corroborated. What is revealed for the first time are emails between Clinton and Pinchuk operatives during the second half of 2014. These confirm the investigations, reported here three years ago, of what Pinchuk was doing to promote his steel-pipe trade with the US and his anti-Russian agenda, with the Clintons and the Obama Administration. At the same time, Pinchuk was using the demonstration of support he was procuring from them in order to boost his political power in Kiev and financial favour from the National Bank of Ukraine.
UKRAINE'S PINCHUK AND HILLARY
Douglas Schoen, Pinchuk’s lobbyist in the US, does not respond to queries. Nor does Weihe, the Pinchuk Foundation apparatchik. They have made no statement challenging the authenticity of these emails. Nor have the Clinton Foundation officials who sent or received the emails, and who have been working to manage Clinton’s relationship with Pinchuk and satisfy his requests. The three Clinton operatives, who remain at work at the foundation, are Amitabh Desai (pictured below, left), Robert Harrison (centre), and Craig Minassian (right).
Desai, according to the Clinton website, “has been with the Clinton Foundation for more than 10 years. As foreign policy adviser, Ami guides international strategy and relationships, and plays a central role in shaping and executing President Clinton’s vision. This includes managing relationships with heads of state, business leaders, philanthropists, and NGOs around the globe” Before taking his job at the foundation, Desai worked for Clinton when she was a US senator, and before that, for Senator Edward Kennedy.
Last week’s report isn’t the first disclosure that in Desai’s emails he was selling access to Clinton for foreign money. More of them can be found here. Among the excerpts already published by US investigators, mainly from Freedom of Information Act pursuit of State Department files, there is no reference to Pinchuk or Ukraine. The US archive on reports of fraud at the Clinton Foundation is very large, and can be combed through here. Fraud involving Pinchuk isn’t reported in this database.
Harrison is a lawyer with a banking career at Goldman Sachs before he became chief executive of the Clinton Global initiative (CGI). That’s the spending faucet of the Clinton operation, not the conduit for incoming cash. American reporters have already uncovered emails from Harrison to the Democratic National Committee asking for guidance in the event Clinton won the presidential election. Harrison was anxious, he said at the time, for the job security of the foundation’s employees. Read this for details.
In no case of emails spilling into the public domain from the Clinton Foundation have those who have been hacked charged forgery of their emails. But they have denied their computer servers and email archives were hacked. Not this time, though.
In June last year, with only weeks to go before election day on November 8, Bloomberg and Fortune reported “the Democratic National Committee isn’t the only political target allegedly under attack by Russian hackers. The Clinton Foundation’s computer network has reportedly suffered a breach as well. Government investigators discovered the compromise ‘as recently as last week” Bloomberg reports, citing three unnamed people familiar with the matter. The intrusion is believed to be part of a broader hacking campaign allegedly sponsored by Russia ahead of the United States presidential election in November. Craig Minassian, communications chief of the foundation, denied the claim in a statement provided to Fortune. ‘We have no evidence Clinton Foundation systems were breached and have not been notified by law enforcement of an issue.’”
On August 26, 2016, Associated Press (AP) in New York published a report on how the records of Clinton’s official diary as Secretary of State paralleled money flows into the Clinton Foundation. AP concluded that Clinton was meeting in her official capacity with those giving cash to the foundation.
“At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.”
Even this much from the AP had taken three years of pursuing Clinton’s meeting records and stonewalling by the State Department. In the AP report, and in the archive it had investigated, there is no mention of the Ukraine or Pinchuk.
September 2013 -- Pinchuk pays Clinton to appear at one of his foundation events promoting Ukrainian membership of the European Union, break with Russia, and regime change in Kiev and Moscow. Minassian publishes a Twitter stream reacting to published allegations of corruption against Clinton. He went into overdrive after the AP report appeared. But Minassian was untalkative last September, when evidence of State Department emails linking the Clinton Foundation to Russian lobbying by Oleg Deripaska (pictured below) for the takeover of General Motoros’ Opel division was being reviewed by State and the US Treasury. That story, and Minassian’s refusal to respond, can be read here (linked at web site).
Days after Minassian was staying shtum on Clinton’s relationship with Deripaska in the Opel deal, Minassian told CNN that Clinton and the foundation had been cleared of conflict of interest by the New York (NY) State Attorney-General, Eric Schneiderman. On September 17, 2016, Minassian claimed that if Clinton won the presidency, then the foundation would stop receiving foreign donations. He didn’t answer when asked why the appearance of a breach of conflict had not been remedied when Clinton was Secretary of State, except to say there was an agreement with the Obama White House that a vetting process was in place at State’s Ethics Office and at the White House general counsel’s office to keep an eye out. After Clinton had left office, according to Minassian, “the Clinton Foundation certainly hasn’t suffered from lack of scrutiny…I believe the New York Attorney-General himself said he did look into the Clinton Foundation, and saw that how we did things is consistent with the guidelines they put forth.”
On November 3, the week before the election, AP broke the news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been pursuing an investigation of Clinton’s government favours for foundation donations, but that the Justice Department stopped it. “Though agents believed they had grounds to move forward with an investigation, Justice Department lawyers were more skeptical. The lawyers did not direct the FBI to stop looking into the matter during the meeting, but public-corruption prosecutors in Washington expressed disinterest in a Clinton Foundation-related investigation based on the information presented.”
In all the email evidence which US media investigations pursued to expose Clinton’s foreign favour trading, there was no focus on the Pinchuk emails and the flow of Pinchuk money. Conflict of interest was the Clinton offence the US investigators were after. But in the Pinchuk case, there was another potential offence, and that was reported on February 17, 2014. Pinchuk had looted his Moscow-based Rossiya Insurance Company of up to $200 million, according to investigations by Russian insurance regulators and prosecutors, before the company’s licence was cancelled in October 2013. The subsequent question was: did that money find its way through Pinchuk’s foundation into Clinton’s foundation, to be traded for political and personal favours? The release of the CyberBerkut emails last week provides fresh evidence of this trading, but CyperBerkut doesn’t mention the Rossiya Insurance Company crime. As well-known as the crime was in 2013 and 2014, no US media investigator, nor any Russian government investigation has reported pursuing the Rossiya money-trail through Pinchuk’s accounts into Clinton’s. So the big question for the FBI and the Department of Justice — what check did the Clinton Foundation carry out of the legality of the money it took from Pinchuk? – has never been asked. Or if the US Government did ask the question, the Clinton answer has been concealed.
Note: Thomas Weihe comments: “First, it is obviously a lie that I dont respond to queries. Every more or less professional and honest journalist gets an answer from me quickly, and I reply honestly. Second, the whole story is completely wrong. It is so wrong that individual corrections cannot improve it. Everything is invented. There is no truth to anything you say. The so-called evidence proves absolutely none of the claims you make. You should be ashamed of publishing such crap.”
Read the emails at web site, commencing in July of 2014.
I’m overwhelmed by the never ending cascade of democratic corruption. I just can’t keep up with all of the actors, crimes and lies.
We all are.
So what are the odds Barr could forego his bagpipe practice for a few days? Probably not good.
Ukraines's Viktor Pinchuk gave $29 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Chelsea Clinton and Clinton Foundation donor Viktor Pinchuk in Kiev, Ukraine 8/21/16.
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http://observer.com/2017/01/ukraine-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-election/http://observer.com/2017/01/ukraine-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-election/
OPINION Ukraine Tried to Tip the Election in Clinton’s Favor
Evidence reveals that Ukraine intervened to tilt the election in favor of its national interests
By Michael Sainato • 01/12/17
Politico reported that the Ukrainian Government worked to aid Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections. The actions taken by government officials included disseminating “documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.”
Those documents implicated Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who worked as an adviser for now-ousted Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych. However, the concerns that the documents raised weren’t in fact over any quasi-Russian ties, though partisan reporting pushed his narrative. Rather, the documents raised the question of whether Manafort declared the income that he had received from the position. The Podesta Group, a lobbying firm co-founded by Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta, also conducted work for Yanukovych.
However, the Manafort narrative not only painted Trump as pro-Russian, but also provided the Clinton campaign with a smear campaign while reaffirming its stance against Russia. It was in Ukraine’s best interest to tilt the election in support of Clinton, who strongly advocated for providing Ukraine with military aid and financial support in order to fight Russian separatists in the country.
Politico noted that Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American working as a consultant for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), met with top Ukrainian Officials in Washington D.C. about forcing Manafort’s resignation in order to perpetuate the narrative that Trump is connected to Russia. Both Chalupa and her sister Andrea have strongly pushed the anti-Russian narrative on social media, in addition to advocating that the electors of the electoral college defect from Trump. The report added, “Politico’s investigation found evidence of Ukrainian government involvement in the race that appears to strain diplomatic protocol dictating that governments refrain from engaging in one another’s elections.”
In addition to the Chalupas, the co-founder and CTO of Crowdstrike, the cyber security firm that the DNC hired to investigate the alleged hacks, Dmitri Alperovitch, also serves as a senior fellow to the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council, which is an openly anti-Russian organization partly . The Atlantic Council is funded by Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who also happens to be one of the most prolific donors to the Clinton Foundation. The DNC denied multiple requests from the FBI to access their servers, effectively forcing the FBI to rely on CrowdStrike’s assessment of the hacks.
The Atlantic Council has propagated anti-Russian sentiment and advocated for bolstering NATO forces in anticipation of a military conflict between with Russia long before Wikileaks released emails from the DNC and Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta. In 2013, the Atlantic Council awarded Hillary Clinton its Distinguished International Leadership Award. In 2014, the Atlantic Council hosted one of several events with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who took over after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was removed in early 2014. In August, Politico reported that Donald Trump’s favorable rhetoric to Russia was concerning Ukraine. The article stated, “Russia wants Trump for U.S. president; Ukraine is terrified by Trump and prefers Hillary Clinton.”
In response to their preferred candidate losing the election, Ukrainian officials are now scrambling to revert from their lobbying for Hillary Clinton and the DNC. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko recently signed a $50,000-a-month contract with a lobbying firm to set up meetings with U.S. officials in the new administration. Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk wrote an op-ed on December 29 in the Wall Street Journal in which he argued that Ukraine needs make compromises to establish peace with Russia. After the election, reports surfaced that Pinchuk donated to Trump’s charity to try to gain the same favor and access that his donations to the Clinton Foundation afforded him. “The sole reason the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has reached out to President-elect Trump—as well as other world leaders—has been to promote strengthened and enduring ties between Ukraine and the West,” a spokeswoman for the Pinchuk foundation told ABC News.
While past elections in Ukraine have been viewed as proxy battles between the U.S. and Russia, it appears that the 2016 presidential election in the U.S. faced similar influence from two foreign countries attempting to influence an election outcome preferable to their own national interests.
September 2013 -- Clinton Foundation mega-donor, Viktor Pinchuk paid Hillary Clinton to appear at one of his foundation events
promoting Ukrainian membership of the European Union, the break with Russia, and regime change in Kiev and Moscow.
Is Barr on an extended vacation?
Thanks Liz. I believe this ties to the Biden case now coming up front and center.
Rudy disclosed more details yesterday, details that are devastaing and which he said he would present conclusive proof today.
Here’s a synopsis:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3780813/posts?page=39#39
Question:
Was Pinchuk the Oligarch that the fired Ukrainian prosecutor was investigating a $5 billion theft simultaneously with Hunter Bidens $3 million theft?
The fired Ukrainian prosecutor was investigating all the money that was being stolen which is why he was fired under Biden’s extortion.
See the link above for a summary of what Rudy disclosed yesterday.
Note it appears that the video of Rudy disclosing the details, appears to be scrubbed from the internet. I had trouble finding it but maybe I am too soon.
“At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.”
Talk about a dry well. No wonder the elites are pissed at Trump winning in 2016. Here they paid all this good bribe money to Clinton figuring it was in the bag. A sure thing. They would have collected billions in sweetheart deals and all without any pesky press scrutiny. It would have been a beautiful setup for them. And then Trump happened.
As far as dhims are concerned, it didn’t happen unless MSM screeches about it at volume 11 24/7 for a week straight. Or if it is perceived to be tangentially bad about Trump. Trump knows this, so he put stuff out their to bait the media, and make the jackals think there is blood in the water. Now, the news is talking about it even though they are moving mountains to ignore the biden part, eventually the news Sisyphus will get their stone just below the the top of the hill, and it will come crashing down
excerpt from the piece for discussion purposes only:
On August 26, 2016, Associated Press (AP) in New York published a report on how the records of Clinton’s official diary as Secretary of State paralleled money flows into the Clinton Foundation. AP concluded that Clinton was meeting in her official capacity with those giving cash to the foundation.
“At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.”
Even this much from the AP had taken three years of pursuing Clinton’s meeting records and stonewalling by the State Department. In the AP report, and in the archive it had investigated, there is no mention of the Ukraine or Pinchuk.
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this piece backs up the fact that hildabeast had a “For Sale” sign on her door at the State Dept
this article also identifies the Ukes as a more crooked operation than the Pakis..
hildabeast has come a long way from double collateralizing 10,000 dollar monthly pay lot loans at the white water & renting out the lincoln bedroom to the big time of espionage & looting the IMF
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FROM IMF WEB SITE
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
Created in 1945, the IMF is governed by and accountable to the 189 countries that make up its near-global membership.
The IMF's primary purpose is to ensure the stability of the international monetary system—the system of exchange rates and international payments that enables countries (and their citizens) to transact with each other. The Fund's mandate was updated in 2012 to include all macroeconomic and financial sector issues that bear on global stability.
Question: Was Pinchuk the Oligarch that the fired Ukrainian prosecutor was investigating
WRT a $5 billion IMF theft, being investigated simultaneously with Hunter Bidens $3 million salary?
SALIENT POINT: The fired Ukrainian prosecutor was investigating all the Ukranian money being stolen;
he was fired when Joe Biden twisted his arm for investigating Hunter Biden’s extortion.
HMMMMMMM....Could be Joe was peeved that Hunter only got $3 million of the missing $5 billion?
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NOTE See the link in Hostage's post above for a summary of what Rudy disclosed yesterday.
Except now it appears that the Rudy disclosure video was scrubbed from the internet.
"Harry Dexter White assistant secretary of the treasury in the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was a top Soviet spy and agent of influence who not only caused incalculable harm to the United States, but also materially assisted Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s spreading of terror and tyranny throughout the entire world".
"Benn Steil’s book, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, published earlier this year by the CFR and Princeton University Press, makes some important concessions concerning White’s NKVD operations. As the book’s title suggests, the main focus of Steil’s attention deals with White’s central role in designing and implementing the plan to establish the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and the post-war economic order."
source of quote:https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/17147-the-communist-agent-who-caused-pearl-harbor-and-global-economic-havoc
Decrypted Venona files confirmed White's betrayal...this is the man that lived in FDR's White Houseand during FDR incapicitation had essentially penitentiary powers as FDR eminence gris...See Diana West's "American Betrayal"
her web site:
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/17147-the-communist-agent-who-caused-pearl-harbor-and-global-economic-havoc
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