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===US Embassy in Kiev===
 
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Lutsenko accused the Obama-era U.S. Embassy in 2016 of interfering in his office's ability to prosecute corruption cases, saying the U.S. ambassador gave him a list of defendants that he could not pursue, then refused to cooperate in an investigation into alleged misappropriation of U.S. funds to aid Ukraine. Embassy official George Kent wrote, “We are gravely concerned about this investigation for which we see no basis."<ref>https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/6ngpwwr6yo6tov9k/images/1-204cb3458d.jpg</ref> Ukrainian officials said, {{quotebox|The implied message to Ukraine’s prosecutors was clear: Don’t target AntAC in the middle of an America presidential election in which [[Soros]] was backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, [[Barack Obama]].}}  
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Lutsenko accused the Obama-era U.S. Embassy in 2016 of interfering in his office's ability to prosecute corruption cases,<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48268762</ref> saying the U.S. ambassador gave him a list of defendants that he could not pursue, then refused to cooperate in an investigation into alleged misappropriation of U.S. funds to aid Ukraine. Embassy official George Kent wrote, “We are gravely concerned about this investigation for which we see no basis."<ref>https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/6ngpwwr6yo6tov9k/images/1-204cb3458d.jpg</ref> Ukrainian officials said, {{quotebox|The implied message to Ukraine’s prosecutors was clear: Don’t target AntAC in the middle of an America presidential election in which [[Soros]] was backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, [[Barack Obama]].}}  
    
Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Prosecutor General's International Legal Cooperation Department, said senior Ukrainian [[law enforcement]] officials have tried since 2018 to get [[visa]]s from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev to deliver their evidence of Obama-era wrongdoing by [[Democrat]]s to Washington but have been thwarted. “We were supposed to share this information during a working trip to the United States. However, the U.S. ambassador blocked us from obtaining a visa." House Rules Committee chairman Pete Sessions asked [[Secretary of State]] [[Mike Pompeo]] to recall the current U.S. ambassador who has spoken against U.S policy in 2018.<ref>https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/36o8ydebgg6touoh/images/1-b12b1ad1d1.jpg</ref>
 
Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Prosecutor General's International Legal Cooperation Department, said senior Ukrainian [[law enforcement]] officials have tried since 2018 to get [[visa]]s from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev to deliver their evidence of Obama-era wrongdoing by [[Democrat]]s to Washington but have been thwarted. “We were supposed to share this information during a working trip to the United States. However, the U.S. ambassador blocked us from obtaining a visa." House Rules Committee chairman Pete Sessions asked [[Secretary of State]] [[Mike Pompeo]] to recall the current U.S. ambassador who has spoken against U.S policy in 2018.<ref>https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/36o8ydebgg6touoh/images/1-b12b1ad1d1.jpg</ref>
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