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==Biden-Ukraine scandal==
==Biden-Ukraine scandal==
Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said Yovanovitch gave him a "Do Not Prosecute" list with Hunter Biden's name on it.<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/434875-top-ukrainian-justice-official-says-us-ambassador-gave-him-a-do-not-prosecute</ref> On March 21, 2019, the [[State Department]] rejected these allegations, stating: "The allegations by the Ukrainian prosecutor-general are not true and are intended to tarnish the reputation of Ambassador Yovanovitch."<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/us-rejects-top-ukrainian-prosecutors-dont-prosecute-accusation/29834853.html</ref> In an interview with the ''New York Times'', Lutsenko later denied ever making such allegations, blaming a mistranslation of his comments re. Yovanovitch telling him not to prosecute people from [[Soros]] activist organizations. Lutsenko further denied having any evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/europe/ukraine-prosecutor-trump.html</ref>
Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said Yovanovitch gave him a "Do Not Prosecute" list with Hunter Biden's name on it.
Hunter Biden received $3.1 million in 46 payments..<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2019/11/06/breaking-source-reveals-hunter-biden-took-off-the-books-payments-from-burisma-aided-by-fbi-coverup/</ref>
Obama administration officials sought to suppress a Ukrainian corruption probe into an [[NGO]] bankrolled by both the US government and [[George Soros]]. When Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office tried to investigate an alleged misallocation of $4.4 million in US funds, which was supposed to go toward anti-corruption initiatives, US embassy officials came down hard to shut down the investigation altogether. “We ran right into a buzzsaw and we got bloodied,” a senior Ukrainian official told ''[[The Hill]]''.
Notably, former State Department official George Kent, a star witnesses in [[Adam Schiff]]'s hearings, recommended in April 2016 that Ukraine stop investigating a Soros-funded entity in Ukraine, AntAC. "The investigation into the Anti-Corruption Action Center (sic), based on the assistance they have received from us, is similarly misplaced," wrote Kent.
''The Hill'' reported,
{{quotebox|While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
The focus on AntAC — whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted.
The prosecutors soon would learn the resistance they faced was blowing directly from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, where the Obama administration took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and the group.<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/434875-top-ukrainian-justice-official-says-us-ambassador-gave-him-a-do-not-prosecute</ref>}}
On March 21, 2019, the [[State Department]] rejected these allegations, stating: "The allegations by the Ukrainian prosecutor-general are not true and are intended to tarnish the reputation of Ambassador Yovanovitch."<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/us-rejects-top-ukrainian-prosecutors-dont-prosecute-accusation/29834853.html</ref> In an interview with the ''New York Times'', Lutsenko later denied ever making such allegations, blaming a mistranslation of his comments re. Yovanovitch telling him not to prosecute people from [[Soros]] activist organizations. Lutsenko further denied having any evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/europe/ukraine-prosecutor-trump.html</ref>
Hunter Biden received $3.1 million in 46 payments.<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2019/11/06/breaking-source-reveals-hunter-biden-took-off-the-books-payments-from-burisma-aided-by-fbi-coverup/</ref>
==See also==
==See also==