GAME OVER!

It's boils down to the same levels of greed and corruption in the end Clyde, just done in different ways, so in the end "where is the difference?".

KYIV. Nov 20, 2019 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian members of parliament have demanded the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, investigate suspicions of the legalization of $7.4 billion by the “family” of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych through the American investment fund Franklin Templeton Investments, which they said has ties to the U.S. Democratic Party.

At a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Wednesday, MP Andriy Derkach announced that deputies have received new materials from investigative journalists about international corruption and the participation of Ukrainian officials in it.

“Last week, November 14, the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO), unnoticed by the media, announced a new suspicion to the notorious owner of Burisma, ex-Ecology Minister Zlochevsky. According to the suspicion, the Yanukovych family is suspected, in particular, with legalizing (laundering) of criminally obtained income through Franklin Templeton Investments, an investment fund carrying out purchases of external government loan bonds totaling $7.4 billion,” Derkach said.

With reference to the investigation, he emphasized: it was money criminally obtained by the “family” of Yanukovychand invested in the purchase of Ukrainian debt in 2013-2014.

For his part, MP Oleksandr Dubinsky from the Servant of the People faction said that according to investigators, “the Yanukovych ‘family’ illegally obtained $7.4 billion and laundered the funds through an investment fund close to some representatives of the U.S. Democratic Party in the form of external government loan bonds.”

Meanwhile, Derkach said that several facts indicate Franklin Templeton Investments’ relationship with the U.S. Democratic Party.

“The son of Templeton’s founder, John Templeton Jr., was one of President Obama’s major campaign donors. Another fund-related character is Thomas Donilon. Managing Director of BlackRock Investment Institute, shareholder Franklin Templeton Investments, which has the largest share in the fund. It is noteworthy that he previously was Obama’s national security advisor,”Derkach said.

The MP said that the presidents of Ukraine and the United States should combine the efforts of the two countries to establish facts of corruption and money laundering with the participation of citizens of both countries.

Derkach also announced the amount of money transferred to representatives of the Burisma Group, including Hunter Biden. According to documents, in general, in favor of Hunter Biden, Alexander Kwasniewski, Alan Apter and Devon Archer, Burisma paid about $16.5 million.

According to Derkach, ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin repeatedly appealed to the NABU Director Artem Sytnyk in the framework of criminal proceedings for Burisma, but constantly received formal responses. The activities of Shokin, according to the MP, irritated then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during his fifth visit to Kyiv in two years. The visit on December 7-8, 2015, was devoted to solving the issue of Shokin’s resignation for the affairs of Zlochevsky and Burisma, he said.

“The subject of pressure was the $1 billion credit guarantee that the United States should have provided to Ukraine: Biden himself acknowledged the pressure in his speech to the U.S. Foreign Relations Council in January 2018,” Derkach said.

Yes. A Tjuga as we call it.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6gaffel

Yes. A Tjuga as we call it.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6gaffel

For moomin https://knowyourphrase.com/stick-a-fork-in-it

Did you watch the testimony, as I did. Or are you relying upon the "spin" by Fox, or CNN or other outlets?

It sounded good. Several Republicans were critical that Ambassador Sondland did not produce any documentary evidence.

There is just one slight flaw in that argument. The White House and other Trump appointees have refused to release the documents.

It sounded good. Several Republicans were critical that Ambassador Sondland did not produce any documentary evidence.

There is just one slight flaw in that argument. The White House and other Trump appointees have refused to release the documents.

Yep

Did you watch the testimony, as I did. Or are you relying upon the "spin" by Fox, or CNN or other outlets?

Did you watch the testimony, as I did. Or are you relying upon the "spin" by Fox, or CNN or other outlets?

I think you will find all of it here.
https://www.c-span.org/impeachment/

Did you watch the testimony, as I did. Or are you relying upon the "spin" by Fox, or CNN or other outlets?

I think you will find all of it here.
https://www.c-span.org/impeachment/

Yes. Ukraine is a very corrupt country.
Trump knows that and he was trying to use that for his own benefits. Simple as that!

And a Democrat Vice President's family. Who is now a candidate for the Democrat Party's nomination for President :-D

$50,000 per month with no experience and his father was Vice President?
Yes, all was just a coincidence!

But in Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world it's fairly common for well-known public figures to be given well-paid positions to improve the public image of a controversial company.

$50,000 per month with no experience and his father was Vice President?
Yes, all was just a coincidence!

But in Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world it's fairly common for well-known public figures to be given well-paid positions to improve the public image of a controversial company.

US diplomat in Ukraine David Holmes has testified that the so-called black ledger, which documents corruption in Ukraine, is "credible".
The "black ledger" emerged in Ukraine during the US presidential campaign and appeared to show that Trump's now jailed former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, received undeclared payments from a Ukrainian pro-Russian political party.
Some Trump supporters have argued the document must be fake, and was deliberately put out by Ukrainian journalist-turned-politician, Sergei Leschenko, who hates Trump.
In the more than three years since the "Black Ledger" emerged, no-one has managed to cast serious doubt on its contents.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office did not introduce the black ledger at Manafort’s trial.

Does the term "Figurhead" mean anything anymore?

Who are you speaking of?
It cannot be the then Vice-President Joe Biden who made many, many trips to the Ukraine while, as the media reported in my post:

Joe Biden, oversaw policy regarding the Eastern European nation.

Since Joe Biden was not a "figurehead". Who are you referencing?

But in Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world it's fairly common for well-known public figure(heads) to be given well-paid positions to improve the public image of a controversial company.