Firtash is one of the threads to pull that will unravel the whole megillah and send Rudy to the hoosegow for the foreseeable future.
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culminated in Parnas and Fruman suing Kolomoisky, accusing him of threatening to have them killed. Kolomoisky denied the allegation, and later settled the case out of court.
… promising that the final “payment” will be paid-in-full at a time and place of his choosing.
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Sounds like there is a pretty good chance once we replace corrupt Barr with a Dem AG. They should make it a day 1 priority.
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Just for Thugs guarantees hook-ups.
At this moment, getting him into OUR hands might not be the best move for good people who want answers. Our hands include Bill Barr and Chump.
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Can you elaborate? I googled, know I have seen the name before, but google isn’t immediately connecting the dots.
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Please let it be Tinder.
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I have been wondering if Schiff has them in undisclosed locations the night before their testimony just to avoid such nonsense. How Putin-like we are thinking, or become.
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Has everybody forgotten that Benczkowski himself was fully known to be up to his eyeballs in Russia before the Republican Senate confirmed him as head of the Criminal Division of DOJ? (He represented one of Putin’s skeezy banks). I think he more than Barr may be ground zero for the day-to-day functioning of DOJ as an arm of Trump’s re-election committee (or should I say an arm of Putin’s influence operation–same thing). I used to think that Trump operated like a Russian mobster. I was wrong. It’s now clear he is a straight-up member of the Russian mob. Giuliani too. The question is since how long ago? Decades?
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I remember. Benczkowski keeps turning up everywhere. He seems to be very “hands on”. He needs a subpoena.
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Who knew that America’s Mayor would soon find himself to be among America’s Most Wanted?!
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He was never “America’s mayor.”
He is Putin’s mayor" and has been for some time now.
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My recall is fuzzy (it has been a long national nightmare) but I am trying to search and remember some of Josh’s posts about Michael Cohen and his Ukranian born in-laws. I need a whiteboard and more timelines like this.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime/putting-the-new-cohen-revelations-into-the-early-2017-timeline
Speculation has been that Cohen’s father-in-law, Fima Shusterman , was washing Russian/Ukranian money through Trump Tower apartment purchases with the full knowledge of Trump.
Schusterman’s mob ties were ‘well known’ and Giuliani tried to discredit him, and Michael Cohen, by saying Schusterman was mobbed up.
I am sure others know the answer to this, but I am curious how all of these past and current players loop back, and now forward, on a timeline, to start to put a bow on this whole mess.
I am sure Barr is running around trying to muddy the waters so these connections can’t be made. And, I am sure the House Committees are doing the opposite. If so, we may see elements of the Mueller Report make their way back into the Impeachment Inquiry.
I’m sure others on this thread can fill in the links, or maybe Josh can revisit.
Now I wonder if putting Michael Cohen in jail was truly a strategic move to get him away from inquiring minds.
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Evidently Taylor is testifying right now?
Per Politico’s Kyle Cheney, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) described Taylor’s testimony so far as “incredibly damaging to the president.” Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI), meanwhile, reportedly described Taylor’s testimony as “It’s only noon and this is my most disturbing day in Congress so far.”
Seems Taylor’s opening remarks were 15 pages long and elicited sighs and gasps from the assembled
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Don’t give Donny Two-Thumbs any ideas…
You can buy clothing, but you cannot buy Class.
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Ahh, fond memories. I recently had my first Kolomoisky based on the advice of my doctor. Apparently you get one of those after you turn fifty …
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Follow the link in the article. The Oct. 11 piece is illuminating, and it contains a link to another deeper profile of Kolomoisky from shortly after Zelensky’s election.
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Just about everyone in Queens. This guy’s father robbed the milkman (kind of a pathetic low, and Rudy was known to be mobbed up. He built a lot of his career prosecuting Democrats (sort of like shooting fish in a fishbowl in that part of the country) along with the enemies of his cronies. By the 1990s, he was likely into the Russian mob (which started up in force in NYC during the 1970s – the Russians were pissed about the Jackson-Vanik amendment and made sure that some of the emigres were KGB plants, usually bad guys from the gulags (the “zeks”) who quickly cowed American crooks into submission. I’m sure Rudy made sure that the other “families” were aware of the pecking order.
He had another weapon. His media buddies in NYC were able to re-invent him as a “moderate Republican.” ANd when he ran for Senate, he already was owned lock stock and barrel by the religious right, whose NY leadership is quite old. Of course, he refused to campaign in upstate, because he thought of himself as a sophisticated urbanite and wouldn’t deign to deal with anyone upstate. Hillary Clinton hit it for all it was worth. This ensured that when Guiliani dropped out (his extramarital affairs had hit the news, which in a wingnut problem is a problem) his primary opponent – who was selected as the replacement candidate – couldn’t make up the lost ground. (He did win Long Island, his home base, and the obviously red-county rural areas, but not much else.)
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