very complicated and convoluted article, but the following does stand out:
“In a newly sworn affidavit prepared for a European court, Shokin testified that when he was fired in March 2016, he was told the reason was that Biden was unhappy about the Burisma investigation. “The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings, a natural gas firm active in Ukraine and Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was a member of the Board of Directors,” Shokin testified.”
However, Shokin has lots of reasons to be making self-serving statements like that, so it can’t be taken on face value alone ...
As far as I could tell, everything else in the article was merely suggestive of corruption, with nothing else but the above rising to the level of a smoking gun ... a bit disappointing, actually ...
a bit disappointing, actually ...
here is a little GEM...NBC said no open cases at the time of Bidens remarks......
Some media outlets have reported that, at the time Joe Biden forced the firing in March 2016, there were no open investigations. Those reports are wrong. A British-based investigation of Burisma’s owner was closed down in early 2015 on a technicality when a deadline for documents was not met. But the Ukraine Prosecutor General’s office still had two open inquiries in March 2016, according to the official case file provided me. One of those cases involved taxes; the other, allegations of corruption. Burisma announced the cases against it were not closed and settled until January 2017.