Giuliani Pals Expected In Kyiv Before Arrest | Talking Points Memo

Rudy Giuliani’s indicted pals were scheduled to be in Kyiv last month when they were arrested at Washington-Dulles International Airport, TPM has confirmed with their Ukraine lawyer.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1261119
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Good work, Josh Kovensky.

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No collusion! Er, no quid pro quo!! Er, OK, I did it, but it’s not impeachable!!! Good luck with that defense…

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It’s like the old Billy Joel song, Kyiv Waits for You. Oh the Ukraine grift (gift?) really knocks me out…

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That took longer than expected. OF COURSE they were headed to Kiev! What would they be doing in Vienna on a one way ticket? Just about all flights to Kiev layover in Central Europe with Vienna being the most common connection. I’ve also be routed through Prague and Budapest but that’s not often.

They were absconding so WTF would they go to Vienna for?

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“It will be resolved by a peaceful settlement,” Kolomoisky told a Ukrainian news outlet.

“I will sleep like baby when it’s over,” He added

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Aw gee. Kyiv is lovely in October; everybody goes there. No big deal.

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“Parnas and Fruman demanded 200 million Hryvnia…”

Is that more than 50 thousand Cronkites?

(Asking for Yosemite Sam.)

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calling the pair “fraudsters” while saying that they were under investigation in the U.S.

Hmm. Maybe they did work for the pResident. They had all of the right qualifications.

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That’s where the other oligarch is hanging out, trying to keep from being extradited. Hannity and Giuliani were supposed to be flying there for an interview with him a couple days later.

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:musical_note: Bad boys, bad boys
Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do
When they come for you. :musical_note:

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It’s roughly 300 Brazilians.

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It will all come together. This story is too big to keep under cover. That’s why you don’t do shit like this.

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…Surprising only Hannity’s watchers.

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Yup. I have to say, I’m impressed with the sheer breadth of this stuff, and just how many people have been involved along the way.

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conspiring to evade federal contribution limits and of funneling money into GOP congressional campaigns across the country.

Big money = Big government

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Except they needed moolah to pay for the corruption, the bribing, the flying, and the hoteling in places all over the world. pResident wasn’t going front them the $$$, so which flunky for Trump was?

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These two adorable scamps! Tune in next week for another episode in which Lev and Igor scheme with a Middle Eastern sheik and a international super model with romance on her mind, as they try to convince a French billionaire to invest in a device that turns stones into water – with hilarious consequences! (Every story about these two is another WTF thrown on the pile. Ye gods!)

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I had a relative that was a successful safe cracker. Never got caught. His rules were: involve as few folks as you can, don’t aim too high and put not getting caught as your first priority. Then there’s Trump’s way.

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With a ton of corrupt people in Ukraine willing to spread falsehoods about HRC and the Bidens, I do not believe the overall situation will ever be clarified for the majority of the American public. However, the laser focus on Trump’s machinations and partially transcribed phone confession should hopefully be clear enough for most people.

But if you drift over to FOX and the rest of the right wing media, most of this does not even exist except for the smears against HRC and Biden. So there is always that.

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