Indicted Ukrainian Oligarch Issues Statement Distancing Self From Giuliani

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Indicted Ukrainian Oligarch Issues Statement Distancing Self From Giuliani
talkingpointsmemo.com
1:04 PM · Apr 30, 2021

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/indicted-ukrainian-oligarch-issues-statement-distancing-self-from-giuliani

In a rare move for the indicted Ukrainian gas middleman, oligarch Dmytro Firtash issued a statement on Friday denying any involvement in Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to smear President Joe Biden.

“Mr. Firtash has previously stated that he had no information about the Bidens and had not financed the search for it,” reads the statement, issued by Firtash attorneys Dan Webb and Lanny Davis. “Mr. Firtash never authorized anyone on his behalf to have any involvement in an investigation about the Bidens in the Ukraine.”

The statement comes after FBI agents executed a search warrant on Giuliani’s home and office, and also seized Victoria Toensing’s phone under a warrant.

Firtash was indicted in 2014 on federal foreign bribery charges. The indictment left the oligarch stranded in Vienna, where he has spent the the last seven years fighting extradition to stand trial in a Chicago federal courtroom.

In summer 2019, he hired Toensing and her husband Joe DiGenova in a bid to convince the Justice Department to call off the prosecution. The two former Reagan-era prosecutors also hired a Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas, reportedly for $200,000 to work as a translator. Prosecutors later said that they had found evidence that Parnas had received a $1 million loan from longtime, Geneva-based Firtash attorney Ralph Isenegger.

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[Midnight Writer]

1. Wasn't Hannity scheduled to travel to Vienna to meet with Rudy, Lev, and Igor?

He canceled when Lev and Igor were arrested at the airport.

I hope this all leads back to Hannity. I am tired of him getting away with treasonous lies while preening as a patriot.

[stillcool]

2. and up pops Lanny Davis...

his last gig was Michael Cohen? Russia seems to have been such an opportunity for politicians and friends, or vice versa.

[Wounded Bear]

3. ...and shady lawyers and ambulance chasers...nt

[crickets]

4. Hilarious. This is getting good.

So many familiar names getting dragged back into the limelight for their shady behavior. Yes!