Ukraine Energy Official: Parnas, Fruman Tried To Rope Into Scheme

Andrew Favorov, a top Ukraine energy official, told prosecutors that Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman tried to recruit him to take over the state oil and gas company.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1264904
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I’m not saying that she’s in the Soros Cartel, but I have seen her sneaking donuts in the breakroom after the employee weekly meetings…

@rucleare @playitagainrowlf @rascal_crone

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I told you to go report her actions to the people in Legal. Instead you just gossip about it among your pinko-liberal friends and such. And who are you anyway? I don’t think I recognize your name. Are we in any pictures together?

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WSJ:

Two associates of Rudy Giuliani tried to recruit [Andrew Favorov] a top Ukrainian energy official in March in a proposed takeover of [Naftogaz] the state oil-and-gas company, describing the company’s chief executive [Andriy Kobolyev] and the then-U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch as part of “this Soros cartel” working against President Trump.

Kobolyev is a credible person; Favorov I am less familiar with.

The attacks on Yovanovitch and Soros are contemptible.

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And then, there’s this tidbit. Nunes has been a busy little minion.

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I’m just an assistant manager at a small chain of dry-cleaning stores.

We’re a small, regional chain, so not surprised.

Only the cocaine-fueled party on the 250-foot yacht off of Monaco last New Years’ Eve, attended by Soros himself.

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“He said that they asked if he was a Republican and said they wanted him to be “their guy.””

WTF??! Is this now code-speak amongst shady Ukrainians?

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How utterly in character it seems to ask a Ukrainian if they are Republican, as if American politics are so universal that you can impose that binary all-or-nothing distinction to nations with very different histories.

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Well, they were inviting him to contrast himself with (Democratic donor) Soros.

Plus things can get a little blurry in translation!

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I usually buy my bread crumbs in an 8 ounce box. Lev seems to have gotten himself a truckload to strew across the landscape.

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I guess I’ll clear out my desk, go home and leave letters for next of kin, then turn myself in to the authorities. I can’t imagine Mr. Soros will want to keep me on if those pictures get out. Please tell my old pal @playitagainrowlf that I’ll miss him.

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Why would you do that? You know that you can expense all necessary bribes to “Miscellaneous Expenditures” on your SorosQard™. I do that all the time.

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Cool your jets. I’ve already gone into the “secret server” (yeah, about as secret as @castor_troy’s obsession with Beanie Babies) and hacked the photos. Anybody looking at them will just think they’re a bad photoshopping job (because they are - I never did get the hang of that program).

So stick around and just wait to see what I did to that shot of @castor_troy and that duck! :ok_hand::sunglasses::wine_glass:

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Mr Troy, there is a reason why we keep you in the field and not at headquarters. Discretion dear boy, discretion. However, in this case you are mistaken, Ms Yovanovitch did stop by our office to relate her story, but purely in an informational capacity, she is not on the payroll. And if she helped herself to a donut or two, I believe I speak for the secretarial pool after your last visit to drop off your time card, when I say that at least there were some left to sneak.

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“Parnas’ lawyer denied his account.”

Why would he do that? What game or which player is Parnas holding fast to?

Ahem, them’s right up there with pogs and bitcoin as stores of value and a real investment vehicle for the future.

If you would only give a raise to us poor assistant managers, we wouldn’t need to supplement our income by selling extra donuts to passersby on the street.

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Soooooo… you were in Ukraine this past weekend? That’s why no one answered the door when I came around. Well, thanks for doing us all a solid. I promise not to squeal even if the Dems get that Goldman guy to put the screws to me.

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That was an excellent cover, and we appreciate the intelligence you garnered. Please check your secure channel about your next assignment-but-one where we have you manning a bratwurst cart in Prague in January. I will see our equipment department about getting you special shoes that will keep your feet warm.

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Be more of a surprise if he hadn’t. What a busy fellow our Rudy has been.

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