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originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: JinMI
I remember you losing this argument, so you moved the goal posts.
It doesn't matter. Your assertion is bogus. Your evidence is refuted by historical timelines and facts.
originally posted by: Threadbare
a reply to: Stopthebull
Shokin was removed because he wasn't investigating corruption. State Department policy before Joe's trip is that the US wanted Shokin removed. Poroshenko has said that Shokin wasn't removed due to Biden's comments.
Do you know what happened to Burisma after Shokin was removed? Their offices were raided by investigators after no movement was made on the case under Shokin.
Tne Narrative is wrong
As Uncle Jim told Tony Bobulinski, another former business partner of Hunter’s, Joe is big on “plausible deniability,” a term coined by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to describe the practice of keeping the president only vaguely informed about illegal or unsavory activity so he can plausibly deny he knows anything if it becomes public knowledge.
originally posted by: Threadbare
a reply to: Stopthebull
Shokin was removed because he wasn't investigating corruption. State Department policy before Joe's trip is that the US wanted Shokin removed. Poroshenko has said that Shokin wasn't removed due to Biden's comments.
Do you know what happened to Burisma after Shokin was removed? Their offices were raided by investigators after no movement was made on the case under Shokin.
The White House, meanwhile, maintains Burisma was corrupt, and that Shokin's firing - which the then-vice president demanded - stemmed for not addressing such corruption.
In 2012, the Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Pshonka began investigating Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of the natural gas company Burisma Holdings, over allegations of money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption during 2010–2012.[42][43]
In 2015, Shokin became the prosecutor general, inheriting the investigation. The Obama administration and other governments and non-governmental organizations soon became concerned that Shokin was not adequately pursuing corruption in Ukraine, was protecting the political elite, and was regarded as "an obstacle to anti-corruption efforts".[27][44] Among other issues, he was slow-walking the investigation into Zlochevsky and Burisma and, according to Zlochevsky's allies, using the threat of prosecution to try to solicit bribes from Mr. Zlochevsky and his team – to the extent that Obama officials were considering launching their own criminal investigation into the company for possible money laundering.
In 2015, Burisma was one of the founders of the International Forum on Energy Security for the Future and partnered the Electric Marathon. In 2017, it signed a partnership agreement with the Atlantic Council to promote anti-corruption measures.
The Digital Forensic Research Lab was founded in 2016, to study disinformation in open source environments and report on democratic processes. Top donors of the project and the think tank, in general, are currently Facebook, after a 2018 sum was donated, and the government of Great Britain.