Title : Testimony. Plus: Rudy Giuliani, Charles Gucciardo, Michael Cohen and a fascinating scam
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Testimony. Plus: Rudy Giuliani, Charles Gucciardo, Michael Cohen and a fascinating scam
Things have been hectic here, and I didn't watch much of today's testimony by Vindmann and Williams. But I got the gist, thanks to my favorite Twitter-ers and other sources.Right now, I'll say this: The Republicans have had mohts to explain just what it was that Hunter Biden did that was so damned corrupt. Did he do anything wrong? If so, what? At this point, if you can't offer specifics, STFU.
Hunter was a lawyer with Boies Schiller Flexner, a very fancy-shmancy law firm. Seems to me that, even if his last name were not famous, he was a very reasonable hire (at a not-unreasonable fee, as fancy-shmancy lawyers go) for a big energy concern looking to recover its reputation and expand into other countries.
The person who had ruined Burisma's reputation was the pro-Putin Mykola Zlochevsky, who resembles the Kingpin in Marvel Comics. When our media refers to Burisma as corrupt, they're referring to Zlovechsky, who had to flee Ukraine and now lives in Monaco.
Now hre's the important point -- the key bit of news that Fox will never report: Zlochevsky was ousted by the 2014 revolution in Ukraine. He was gone before Burisma hired the American firm of Boies Schiller Flexner to help them regain their international standing.
Near as I can tell, Biden did nothing -- absolutely nothing -- wrong.
Wanna prove me wrong? Offer evidence -- and that means evidence, not rhetoric or shop-worn phrases. I'm willing to change my views, to admit error, if you give me a good reason. So far, I've heard nada.
I trust that most of you already know that Joe Biden -- along with the entire international community -- had asked for resignation of the prosecutor who refused to look into Burisma. The Republicans keep stating or implying that this prosecutor was shut down because he had been effective. Once again, the Republicans have stood truth on its head.
Speaking of which: In his closing statement, Nunes stated that it was the Democrats who somehow rigged the 2016 election!
They never stop. They just never stop. No matter how often the "Crowdstrike" conspiracy theory is debunked, these assholes win over the hearts and minds of millions through sheer repetition.
Not all conspiracy theories are wrong, and not all conspiracy theories are created equal. For example, I know of one interesting theory which says that a certain congressperson is being blackmailed because he was photographed with an underaged hooker on a certain yacht used by a certain business in which this congressman had invested. Now, can I conclusively demonstrate the truth of that narrative? Can I prove it the way a geometer proves a theorem? No. But if required, I could make a more plausible and logical argument for that narrative than anyone has ever made for the "Crowdstrike" conspiracy theory.
Elsewhere....
Giuliani. I've been giving some further thought to this. It now appears that the "Charles" referenced in the infamous "butt-dial" conversation was Charles Gucciardo of Long Island. The more I mull over the logistics of this alleged "accidental" transmission of a private Giuliani conversation, the more convinced I've become that this here accident warn't no accident.
I suspect (but cannot prove) that someone is listening in on Rudy. This same someone may have put the message out as a way of signalling: "We're keeping tabs on you."
In one butt-dialed conversation, Rudy asks for a very hefty sum of money. Perhaps our "someone" wants to know whether Rudy is paying taxes on these funds (presuming that he is the recipient).
We still have no indication as to why Gucciardo paid Giuliani $500,000. However, it seems increasingly clear that this whole operation is really about an effort to commandeer Ukraine's natural gas. The oligarch behind it all is Dmitry Firtash, who made his billions selling Russian gas in Ukraine with an obscene markup, and who no doubt would like to turn on the money-spigot again.
Thus, it is not out of line to ask if Gucciardo acted as a Firtash go-between.
Has Gucciado's law firm ever represented Firtash's interests in the United States? I don't know.
Gucciardo is a personal injury lawyer. Now, I am NOT alleging that he has ever done anything criminal or unethical. But it is interesting to note that personal injury lawyers have been involved with a certain type of very lucrative scam, as described here. One lawyer who profited from this scam is none other than Donald Trump's former bagman, Michael Cohen.
A Rolling Stone investigation found that Cohen represented numerous clients who were involved in deliberate, planned car crashes as part of an attempt to cheat insurance companies. Furthermore, investigations by insurers showed that several of Cohen’s clients were affiliated with insurance fraud rings that repeatedly staged “accidents.” And at least one person Cohen represented was indicted on criminal charges of insurance fraud while the lawsuit he had filed on her behalf was pending. Cohen also did legal work for a medical clinic whose principal was a doctor later convicted of insurance fraud for filing phony medical claims on purported “accident” victims. Taken together, a picture emerges that the personal attorney to the president of the United States was connected to a shadowy underworld of New York insurance fraud, a pervasive problem dominated by Russian organized crime that was costing the state’s drivers an estimated $1 billion a year.For more on the Russian angle, see this 2003 story, originally published in Fortune.
Investigators have also found evidence of other serious crimes allegedly committed by members of the ring, including money laundering and extortion. Many of those indicted are Russian emigres, and some of the illicit funds have been tracked to large corporations in Russia. Prosecutors refer to the investigation as the "Boris" case--an acronym for Big Organized Russian Insurance Scam.In those days, the Russian scammers used three different law firms: Sanders & Grossman, Israel & Israel, and Baker & Barshay. Obviously, other lawyers had to handle the business after 2003. Michael Cohen would appear to one such lawyer; I doubt that he was the only one.
You may find this bit rather amusing:
Fella has observed some of the Russians meeting with members of the Italian Mob. "The Russians are enthralled by the Godfather movies," he says. "They emulate that behavior with the kissing, the hugging, the sit-downs. But when it comes to white-collar crime, they are much smarter than the Italians."
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