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Post by the Scribe on Nov 10, 2023 6:15:47 GMT
Well, Well, Well: Hypocrite James Comer Did Exactly What Joe Biden Did
www.yahoo.com/news/well-well-well-hypocrite-james-155332927.html
Tori Otten
Thu, November 9, 2023 at 8:53 AM MST·3 min read
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James Comer has touted the fact that Joe Biden loaned his brother $200,000 as surefire evidence of the president’s criminal wrongdoing. But a new report reveals that the Kentucky Republican has done the same thing—and more.
www.thedailybeast.com/james-comer-like-joe-biden-also-paid-his-brother-dollar200k#
Comer has for months accused Biden of corruption, although he has yet to produce any evidence. In late October, he dropped a so-called “bombshell”: Biden had given his brother James Biden a $200,000 check with the words “loan repayment” on the front.
www.yahoo.com/news/fact-checked-republicans-biden-corruption-100000432.html
Comer insisted the check was actually proof of “shady” business practices in the Biden family, despite the fact that multiple news outlets—including conservative-leaning ones—found evidence to the contrary. What’s more, the check was from 2018, when Biden was not in office or running for president.
oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-evidence-of-direct-payment-to-joe-biden/
www.factcheck.org/2023/10/cherry-picking-influence-payment-from-james-to-joe-biden/
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/bank-records-show-joe-biden-paid-james-biden
www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/fact-check-evidence-supports-democrats-case-that-joe-biden-made-a-personal-loan-to-his-brother/index.html
But as The Daily Beast pointed out in a report published Thursday, “if Comer genuinely believes these transactions clear the ‘shady business practices’ bar, he might want to consider a parallel inquiry into his own family.”
www.thedailybeast.com/james-comer-like-joe-biden-also-paid-his-brother-dollar200k#
Not only did Comer also lend his brother $200,000, he did it in the sketchiest way possible, according to the report.
Comer co-owns a farming business with his brother. Their late father was also a partner. With this business, Comer and his brother have engaged in multiple land swaps over the years. The Beast details one exchange after their father’s death in January 2019:
Chad Comer bought out his brother’s half of a piece of inherited Kentucky property, paying $100,000, according to deed records in Monroe County. Five months later, James and his wife, Tamara “TJ” Comer, bought the property out in full, this time paying Chad Comer $218,000. The buyout netted Chad Comer an unexplained $18,000 above the total value in July.
In another exchange, Comer gifted his brother his share of two inherited pieces of land, with a share value of $175,000. The cost of the transaction was only $1. Comer’s brother went on to apply for a hefty tax break and then gift Comer a more valuable piece of land in return.
And as Comer likes to say so often, it’s not just about the loan itself. While he was swapping the land from his family’s farming business, Comer held multiple important roles in agriculture oversight. Before coming to Congress, Comer was a member of Kentucky’s state legislature Agriculture Committee for eight years. He also served as the Kentucky agriculture commissioner.
When he was elected to Congress in 2016, Comer was a member of the House Agriculture Committee. Two years later, he negotiated the Farm Bill, which increased federal support for American farmers. But after Comer moved his business away from farming, he also shifted his work away from agriculture oversight.
The Beast also found that Comer supposedly runs multiple businesses that do not appear to exist on paper. The company he ran with his father and brother was called Comer Land & Cattle. There are no business filings for a company with that name anywhere in Kentucky.
Comer says he has a personal agriculture company called James Comer Jr. Farms, but the Beast couldn’t find any official records for a business with that name. And when Comer purchased the land from his brother, the deal listed a third party: a shell company called Farm Team Properties, LLC, owned by Comer and his wife.
Comer listed the company on his financial disclosure statement that year, describing it as a “land management and real estate speculation company” valued between $200,000 and $500,000. But when he listed the company on his 2021 financial statement, he valued it between $500,000 and $1 million. The Beast did not find a clear explanation for the massive increase in value.
disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2019/10037392.pdf
disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2021/10048636.pdf
Given this information, Comer’s accusations against Biden ring particularly hollow. It would seem the wrong politician is being investigated for “shady” business dealings.The New Republic
James Comer Melts Down Over Report He Did the Exact Same Thing as Joe Biden
www.yahoo.com/news/james-comer-melts-down-over-200048227.html
Tori Otten
Tue, November 14, 2023 at 1:00 PM MST·2 min read
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Representative James Comer had a complete meltdown Tuesday when asked about loans he appears to have given his brother.
newrepublic.com/post/174336/james-comer-possibly-get-embarrassing-um-yes
Comer has insisted for months that Joe Biden is guilty of corruption, most recently citing a check the president gave his brother Jim Biden in 2018. But last week, a Daily Beast report revealed that Comer and his own brother have engaged in multiple land swaps over the years through family-owned businesses that do not appear to actually exist.
www.yahoo.com/news/fact-checked-republicans-biden-corruption-100000432.html
www.yahoo.com/news/well-well-well-hypocrite-james-155332927.html
When Democratic Representative Jared Moskowtiz asked Comer about the loans during a House hearing Tuesday, Comer grew incensed.
“I’ve never loaned my brother one penny,” Comer said, calling the story “completely false.”
Comer also said it was “bullshit” that the story said he owned a shell company. As he continued to deny that he had loaned his brother money or that his family had engaged in shady business dealings, he grew more heated.
“You look like a Smurf here, just going around and stuff!” he yelled at Goldman. “You continue to spew disinformation!”
As Moskowitz shouted questions, specifically why voters should believe Comer, the Kentucky Republican yelled over him. He told the Democrat to go to Comer’s district and see all the land Comer owns for himself.
newrepublic.com/article/173161/is-james-comer-lying-biden-probe-sources
At one point, Comer said, “You’ve already been proven a liar, Mr. Moskowitz!”
“Who’s proven me a liar—you? Your word means nothing!” Moskowitz shot back.
Moskowitz then challenged Comer to sit for a deposition about the loan. Comer said he would be happy to sit down with Hunter and Jim Biden.
www.yahoo.com/news/james-comer-lying-requests-hunter-143516152.html
Before the hearing returned to its original agenda, Moskowitz delivered a parting shot.
“We believe everything in the media, like when you go on Fox News and say things—and everyone says that they’re true—with innuendos and ifs and maybes, the Biden family, the crime family, all this nonsense,” he said. “But when it happens to you, it’s fake news.”
“There should be the same standard. You said at the beginning of this year, the Biden administration can’t have it both ways. Neither can you, Mr. Chairman!”comments
Hilarious. He's the one who keeps saying Hunter has shell companies because they're LLC's. Now he's saying people are financially illiterate if they think all LLC's are shell companies.
But Hunter had no shell companies. One of the LLC's is his law firm and the others are investment deals he was involved in. And there's nothing illegal about transferring money from one company to another, but Comer keeps calling it money laundering.
This stuff only works if it can be kept to rightwing media. Once they're forced to talk about it with normal people it all falls apart.
They just hope if they say it enough times people will believe it. Look what they are doing with COVID. I see comments all the time about how Biden ruined the economy because he shut the country down. That he is part of a vaccine conspiracy. People literally don't know who was POTUS in 2020 and it was three years ago.
Why wouldn't Republicans want to follow a money trail from China or Russia to the Bidens? They've got all his docs and still can't find ANY evidence of wrongdoing.
If you're referring to the former mayor of Moscow's wife, that wasn't Russian money and it didn't go to Hunter. It went to Devon Archer.
As for the 10% for the Big Guy email, that was for a failed business deal that Hunter pulled out of. And that came entirely from the other side, not Hunter's side. There's zero evidence that the "Big Guy" was part of the deal. |
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 10, 2023 16:02:28 GMT
Unlike with the Bidens, Comer’s own history actually borders a conflict of interest between his official government role and his private family business—and it’s been going on for decades.
While Comer and House GOP allies have tried to cast the Biden transactions as evidence of unsavory and possibly impeachable offenses, multiple news organizations—including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, FactCheck.org, and the conservative-leaning Washington Examiner—have all thrown cold water on the notion that the payments are evidence of anything other than a brother helping a brother.
Carl Jung, genius. It's always projection with this crowd.
In 2018, the Oversight Chairman reported a 33 percent stake in “Comer Land & Cattle,” a business he’d run for years with his father and his brother, Chad. His disclosures valued that stake between $1 million and $5 million, describing the company as “a family farming operation engaged in beef cattle, corn, soybeans, mixed hay, & timber farming.” But in 2019, Comer Land & Cattle disappeared from his disclosures, with multiple new joint operations appearing to take its place, and while those entities all had “farm” in their name—many also including “Comer”—their income was from rent.
crooksandliars.com/2023/11/coincidentally-james-comer-also-paid-his
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 14, 2023 23:24:04 GMT
The New York Times
Ukraine Indicts Officials Linked to Efforts to Investigate the Bidens
Andrew E. Kramer
Tue, November 14, 2023 at 11:46 AM MST·4 min read
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FILE - President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, leaves after a court appearance, July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Del. House Republicans issued subpoenas Wednesday to members of President Joe Biden's family, taking their most aggressive step yet in an impeachment inquiry bitterly opposed by Democrats that is testing the reach of congressional oversight powers. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)More
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian police and prosecutors have accused two politicians and a former prosecutor of treason, saying they colluded with a Russian intelligence agency in aiding an effort by Rudy Giuliani several years ago to tie the Biden family to corruption in Ukraine.
Those accused include Kostyantyn Kulyk, a former Ukrainian deputy prosecutor general who had drafted a memo in 2019 suggesting Ukraine investigate Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, for his role serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
Also implicated were a current member of Ukraine’s parliament, Oleksandr Dubinsky, and a former member, Andrii Derkach, who had publicly advocated for an investigation in Ukraine into Hunter Biden. They had also promoted a spurious theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that had meddled in the 2016 presidential election in the United States.
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The three were indicted on charges of treason and belonging to a criminal organization. The charges refer to “information-subversive activities” and focus on actions in 2019 before the U.S. presidential election. They do not say if or when the activity stopped.
In the run-up to the 2020 election in the United States, Giuliani and later President Donald Trump had encouraged Ukrainian officials to follow up on the allegations against Hunter Biden. The effort included a phone call by Trump to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in July 2019 urging an investigation into the Bidens, at a time when the Trump administration was withholding military aid for the Ukrainian army.
Critics say that pressure to investigate the Bidens was politically motivated, aimed at harming the elder Biden’s chances against Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump and Giuliani denied that there was anything inappropriate about their contact with Ukrainian officials, with Trump describing his phone call to Zelenskyy as “perfect.” The administration said military aid to Ukraine was withheld over concerns about corruption in the Ukrainian government.
The events led to Trump’s first impeachment in the House of Representatives. He was acquitted in the Senate.
Ukrainian media on Tuesday suggested the indictments, too, had a political component for Zelenskyy: that they were intended to send a signal to Biden now, as his administration is pressing Congress for military assistance to Ukraine, that Kyiv will root out accused Russian agents, including those who had promoted accusations against his family.
In statements released Monday, Ukrainian police and the country’s domestic intelligence agency said all three men were members of a spy network established inside the Ukrainian government and handled by Russia’s military intelligence agency, known as the GRU.
The intelligence agency’s statement said the Russians paid members of the group $10 million. An aide to Derkach, Ihor Kolesnikov, was detained earlier and convicted on treason charges.
Two members of the group, Derkach and Kulyk, fled Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the statement said. Dubinsky was remanded to pretrial detention in a Ukrainian jail Tuesday.
Dubinsky, in a statement posted on the social networking site Telegram, said that the prosecutors had “not presented one fact” to support the accusations, and that the charges were retribution for criticizing Zelenskyy’s government in his role as a member of parliament. He said that he testified a year and a half ago as a witness in a treason investigation of Derkach but at the time had not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Dubinsky was expelled from Zelenskyy’s political party, Servant of the People, in 2021 after the United States sanctioned him for meddling in the American political process.
The Ukrainian intelligence agency’s statement said that Kulyk had used his position in the prosecutor general’s office to promote investigations that worked “in favor of the Kremlin,” without specifying any cases.
In late 2018, Kulyk compiled a seven-page dossier asserting that Ukrainian prosecutors had evidence that “may attest to the commission of corrupt actions aimed at personal unlawful enrichment by former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden,” according to a copy leaked by a Ukrainian blogger.
The dossier suggested that Biden, when he had served as vice president, had tried to quash a corruption investigation into the natural gas company, Burisma Holdings, where his son served on the board. Former colleagues of Kulyk at the prosecutor’s office confirmed he had written the document, which helped set in motion an effort by Trump’s personal lawyer, Giuliani, and other supporters to press for an investigation in Ukraine.
In a phone call with Zelenskyy that became central to the impeachment case, Trump had asked the Ukrainian president to investigate supposed conflicts of interest by Biden when he was vice president, according to White House notes of the call. Trump denied he had linked military aid to Ukraine to the investigation of the Biden family.
Allegations of corruption and ties to Russia had trailed Kulyk for years in the Ukrainian media and among anti-corruption watchdog groups before he compiled the dossier.
In 2016, he was indicted in Ukraine on charges of illegal enrichment for owning apartments and cars that seemed beyond the means of his modest official salary. One car, a Toyota Land Cruiser, had been bought by the father of a military commander fighting on the Russian side in the war in eastern Ukraine.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 14, 2023 23:32:52 GMT
The Daily Beast
Giuliani’s Top Ukrainian Ally Charged With Russia-Linked Treason
www.yahoo.com/news/giuliani-top-ukrainian-ally-charged-040924752.html
AJ McDougall
Mon, November 13, 2023 at 9:09 PM MST·1 min read
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Ukrainian authorities on Monday notified Oleksandr Dubinsky—a sitting member of the country’s parliament who met with Rudy Giuliani as he tried to discredit Joe Biden and his son Hunter in 2019—that he was suspected of state treason. Allegedly part of a criminal group that received more than $10 million from Russian military intelligence to “to take advantage of the tense political situation in Ukraine and discredit our state in the international arena,” Dubinsky was not named in a statement released to Telegram by Ukraine’s Security Service, but he was identified by two Ukrainian lawmakers on the messaging platform, according to Reuters. The wire reported that Dubinsky denied the allegations in his own Telegram post, saying they were “based on the absolute lies of top state officials.” In early 2021, the embattled politician was one of seven Ukrainians placed on a U.S. sanctions list for participating in “a Russia-linked foreign influence network” that spread “fraudulent and unsubstantiated allegations” about a U.S. political candidate.
www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-politician-us-sanctions-list-suspected-state-treason-lawmakers-2023-11-13/
Read it at POLITICO
www.politico.eu/article/oleksandr-dubinsky-ukraine-treason-russia-rudy-giuliani-joe-hunter-biden/
Read more at The Daily Beast.
www.thedailybeast.com/giulianis-top-ukrainian-ally-oleksandr-dubinsky-charged-with-russia-linked-treasoncomments
did you ever notice how RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA is very similar to CONSERVATIVE MEDIA PROPAGANDA? ever hear the phrase RUSSIAN COLLUSION DELUSION  Funny thing is even the republican led bipartisan senate report tied Trump and his administration to Russia and their intelligence operatives. Look up that 100 page report. Not a delusion.
Rudy also worked with Russian agent Andri Derkach while in Ukraine. Derkach had attended the Russian KGB academy in Moscow and Derkach's father was a successful higher up in the KGB. Rudy said that Derkach was "very helpful" and that they talked many times.
It's typical Russian propaganda. Their "audience" really lacks some essential life skills.
"...In a wild interview Saturday, President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani insisted that he had absolutely no idea that one of his key sources in his smear campaign against Joe Biden was a Russian spy interfering in the U.S. presidential election.
Giuliani failed to explain on MSNBC how he allegedly missed all signs that Ukrainian lawmaker and conspiracy-pusher Andrii Derkach was a Russian operative...."
And all that crying by republicans about there not being a Russian disinformation campaign here in this country when they have people sanctioned for being involved in a Russian disinformation campaign here in this country. They do not care that they are helping push Russian propaganda because they think it will benefit them. Very "America first"...
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 15, 2023 1:40:05 GMT
Kyiv Independent
Law enforcement charges famous lawmaker with high treason
www.yahoo.com/news/law-enforcement-charges-famous-lawmaker-164456967.html
Nate Ostiller, The Kyiv Independent news desk
Mon, November 13, 2023 at 9:44 AM MST·3 min read
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Ukraine's Bureau of Investigation charged lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinskyi with high treason.
dbr.gov.ua/news/dbr-povidomilo-pro-pidozru-v-derzhavnij-zradi-uchasnikam-zlochinnoi-organizacii-do-skladu-yakoi-vhodili-narodni-deputati-ta-eksprokuror
Although the report did not name the current MP by name, Dubinskyi’s spokesperson told the Kyiv Independent that the searches at his place are currently ongoing.
"Oleksandr will comment after they are done," Dubinskyi’s spokesperson said.
According to Ukraine's Security Service, Dubinskyi, code-named Buratino (Pinocchio), is allegedly one of several current and former officials involved in the scheme. The criminal organization also included former MP Andrii Derkach, whose Ukrainian citizenship was stripped in January 2023 for treason and his involvement with pro-Russian parties.
kyivindependent.com/lawmaker-parliament-to-strip-4-m-ps-of-their-mandates/
Derkach faced treason charges on the grounds that he received funds from a Russian intelligence agency to create private security firms that Russia planned to use for capturing Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com/pro-kremlin-mp-charged-with-treason-arrested-in-absentia/
Dubinskyi testified against his former partner in the treason case.
Derkach was specifically named in the SBU's report, as well as former prosecutor Kostiantyn Kulyk, and Ihor Koliesnikov, a former assistant to Derkach.
Koliesnikov has already been convicted of treason on a different charge and is currently in prison.
The alleged scheme was directed by agents from Russia's military intelligence agency (GRU) and was aimed at spreading disinformation about Ukraine's government, sowing division between the U.S. and Ukraine, and slowing down the process of Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO.
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More than $10 million was funneled into the scheme, the SBU said.
Earlier on Nov. 13, Ukrainska Pravda reported that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies were allegedly searching Dubinskyi's premises in connection to a case of a "criminal organization to discredit the image of Ukraine on the international stage."
kyivindependent.com/ukrainska-pravda-ukrainian-authorities-investigate-mp-on-charges-of-discrediting-image-of-ukraine/
Ukrainska Pravda claimed that the current case is related to a disinformation campaign involving both Dubinskyi and Derkach, which reached the highest levels of the Ukrainian and American governments.
Dubinskyi and Derkach pushed conspiracy theories that involved Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden, who sat on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, as well as Mykola Zlochevskyi, the company's founder and a former minister under former pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
They repeated the claims elsewhere as well. The allegations that either President Biden or his son were involved in unlawful actions associated with Burisma have been widely debunked.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/there-s-no-evidence-trump-s-biden-ukraine-accusations-what-n1057851
Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said at the time that the charges were "not credible" and that Dubinskyi and Derkach were "professional disinformers."
www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/sondland-testified-misleading-ukraine-story-spread-among-conservatives-social-media-n1087511
The conspiracies then went viral in the U.S. in the leadup to the 2020 presidential election, fueled in part by a wider campaign among political opponents of Biden who sought to use his son's activities in Ukraine against him.
Derkach and Dubinskyi were later sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2021 for their work with Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer of former President Donald Trump, to undermine Biden's presidential campaign.
Read also: U.S. sanctions 200 entities and individuals for taking part in Russian war effort
kyivindependent.com/us-treasury-expands-russian-sanctions-list-to-130-new-targets/
The U.S. Treasury said that Derkach was "acting as an agent of the Russian intelligence services" and, along with Dubinskyi and three other former Ukrainian officials, worked together on a scheme that "coordinated dissemination and promotion of fraudulent and unsubstantiated allegations involving a U.S. political candidate (Biden)."
home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1232
The conspiracy theories involving Biden and his son were the center of the political scandal that resulted in Trump's first impeachment charge, in which he allegedly threatened President Volodymyr Zelensky in July 2019 that he would cut off aid to Ukraine unless Zelensky initiated an investigation into Biden and his son.
Despite the political scandals and subsequent sanctions from the U.S., Dubinskyi remained in office. He is currently an independent MP, having been removed from President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People party in 2021 for "violating the statute and disobeying the party's governing bodies."
www.pravda.com.ua/news/2021/03/15/7286647/
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 15, 2023 1:45:25 GMT
It's common practice for major corporations to hire people with famous names to sit on their boards because they think that it gives them more prestige. Here is a list of famous people who have sat on various boards all over the world: Cary Grant, Jeb Bush, Nancy Reagan, Al Gore, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, Roslyn Carter, Hillary Clinton, Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly, Billie Jean King, Walter Cronkite, Gloria Steinem, Michael Jordan, Pat Robertson, Ivanka Trump, Francis Ford Copppola, John Forsythe, Merv Griffin, Martin Landay, Neil Armstrong, Polly Bergen, Arthur Ashe, Tom Landry, Evander Holyfield, Roger Staubach, Chris Evert, Oprah Winfrey, Sherina Williams, Nancy Lopez Knight. This is just a partial list. There are hundreds more politicians, entertainers, athletes, authors etc.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 15, 2023 1:47:46 GMT
Corruption in Ukraine, and where reforms fall short | This Week in Ukraine Ep. 10
Kyiv Independent
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“This Week in Ukraine” is a video podcast hosted by Kyiv Independent reporter Anastasiia Lapatina. Every week, Anastasiia sits down with her newsroom colleagues to discuss Ukraine’s most pressing issues.
Episode #10 of our weekly video podcast “This Week in Ukraine” is dedicated to corruption inside Ukraine's judicial system, and how the government has tried to implement reforms to fight it.
Host Anastasiia Lapatine is joined by the Kyiv Independent reporter Oleg Sukhov.
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00:00 Introduction
00:44 How widespread is corruption in Ukraine?
03:09 Is Ukraine’s Soviet past to blame for corruption?
05:30 On Ukraine’s anti-corruption instituions
10:37 On judicial reform, and why it is failing
16:15 The case of notoriously corrupt Pavlo Vovk
20:54 Russian passports of Ukrainian judges
23:48 Has corruption gotten worse after Feb. 24, 2022?
26:24 The recent case of Vsevolod Kniazev, head of the Supreme Court
28:27 Stories of anti-corruption success
31:03 Questions from members
36:23 Also this week
37:19 Outro
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Funny thing is even the republican led bipartisan senate report tied Trump and his administration to Russia and their intelligence operatives. Look up that 100 page report. Not a delusion.