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MONTREAL — The house sits near the end of a quiet street, close to Montreal’s downtown core. Like the owner, it looks nothing extraordinary. Walk inside, however, and one enters a world of international intrigue, power brokering and money. At the centre of it all, sitting behind a glass-topped desk and surrounded by an eclectic group of employees, is Ari Ben-Menashe, controversial lobbyist and consultant to the Russian Federation, to African countries, and to many more.
Visitors to his home on Rue Jean-Girard have included Arthur Porter, a prominent Montreal doctor and businessman. His unusual dealings with Mr. Ben-Menashe were revealed by the National Post last week and led to his resignation two days later as federally appointed chairman of Canada’s spy review agency, the Security and Intelligence Review Committee.
A more recent guest is Jacques Bouchard Jr., senior partner and director of international business at Heenan Blaikie, one of Canada’s largest and most prominent law firms. Mr. Bouchard says he has “a business relationship” with Mr. Ben-Menashe. He once met with the president of Central African Republic and signed a consultancy agreement on Mr. Ben-Menashe’s behalf. The contract promised to obtain “at least a dozen” Russian attack helicopters for the small African country.
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The Ben-Menashe/Heenan Blaikie connection was revealed last week in the National Post. Mr. Bouchard made efforts during interviews to distance his firm from his business partner. “Our reputation is something we take very seriously,” he said. Mr. Ben-Menashe, he suggested, has a different kind of “reputation.” A troubled one.
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Mr. Ben-Menashe acknowledges that. “I’m a liar, I’m crooked, I’m delusional. I’ve heard and read all of it,” he says candidly. “But people keep getting it wrong. They read this propaganda and they assume it’s true and they pass it along. It causes me problems, it really does.”
He says, for example, that he’s now being persecuted by “people in high places,” authorities with enough power to put pressure on Canadian banks with whom he has done business. Since August, at least four of Canada’s largest financial institutions have written to inform him — without offering explanation — of their intention to close every account he holds with them. One case, with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, was before Quebec Superior Court on Friday.
Who, then, is the real Ari Ben-Menashe? And how, despite his notoriety and his banking troubles, does he still manage to negotiate with heads of state, government authorities, and businessmen from around the world? In Montreal, and in the Solomon Islands, in Vanuatu, Cote d’Ivoire, Kuwait, Congo? And with Iran, where he was born? No details there. “It’s sensitive,” he says.
Yet he claims to be “an open book. We’re pretty transparent. When authorities approach us and ask us questions about certain things we’re very co-operative and transparent. I’m talking about government authorities.” Lawyers, businessmen and politicians approach as well, asking about his services. That’s because he has access: To the Russian government, to the Americans, to the Africans.
In August, according to lobbyist documents filed in the United States and required by that country’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Mr. Ben-Menashe was in Douala, Cameroon, where he signed a lobbying and public relations contract with Jean-Jacques Ekindi, a local presidential hopeful. “To the extent it is lawful in the Republic of Cameroon and wherever else relevant,” the agreement reads, “we shall attempt to fund raise for your campaign at least twelve million U.S. dollars.”
The Cameroon presidential election was held last month. Mr. Ekindi placed a distant ninth, receiving less than half of one percent of all votes cast. Despite the dismal result, Mr. Ben-Menashe claims his client “is very happy. No one expected him to win. We are working towards the next campaign.” Mr. Ben-Menashe’s fee for service was US$200,000. “Not a lot of money,” he laughs.
His track record seems less than stellar. He appears to back more losers than winners. He counters that the public only learns about the broken deals, the negative fallout and his perceived failures. He’s enjoyed plenty of successes over the years, he claims. But he offers no proof. “The problem is we can’t break our confidentiality agreements with clients [and give details of successful consultancy and lobbying efforts]. It’s problematic,” he says.
Something is working for him; Mr. Ben-Menashe is clearly a person of wealth. He owns multiple properties in Montreal, and last year he purchased a $7-million apartment on Manhattan’s Park Avenue. He owns expensive automobiles. “I like nice cars,” Mr. Ben-Menashe says with a shrug. Whenever possible, he flies first class; if he must, he will suffer a business class seat. He uses a black American Express card. “There are only a handful of these in Canada,” he says, pulling the titanium charge card from his wallet and casually tossing it in the air. It lands on his desk with an impressive clank.
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Ari Ben-Menashe is often accused by former business associates and clients of self-aggrandizement and telling tall tales, but some things aren’t in dispute. He’s an Iraqi Jew, born in Tehran in 1951. He’s a former employee of the Israeli government who first garnered media attention in 1989, when he was arrested in the United States and charged with attempting to sell three military aircraft to Iran, in contravention of the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. He spent almost a year in jail in New York. He went to trial and was acquitted; a jury accepted his defence, that he was acting on orders from his superiors in Israel.
And then his life changed. He became an enigma. He crafted a memoir called Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. It chronicled international exploits that can’t be verified. He claimed, for example, to have witnessed a purported 1980 meeting in Paris between U.S. Republican party leaders–including George H.W. Bush–and Iranian revolutionary government officials, ending with the understanding that Iran would wait to release 52 Americans taken hostage in Tehran a year earlier by Islamist militants, until after the 1980 U.S. presidential election. A hostage release prior to the election would have benefited incumbent U.S. president Jimmy Carter, whom the Iranians–and the Israelis–despised. Or so claimed Mr. Ben-Menashe.
As it happened, the American hostages were released from captivity in Tehran just as a new president, Republican Ronald Reagan, delivered his January, 1981, inauguration speech.
Mr. Ben-Menashe says he continued traveling the world for Israel, as a military intelligence officer and then as special intelligence advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. By the time his memoir was published, in 1992, Israel no longer wanted anything to do with him. Nor he with Israel, he maintains. “I have no country,” he wrote in his memoir, “I am a citizen of the world–or a citizen of nowhere.”
But that soon changed. In 1993 he married a Canadian woman and moved to Montreal; three years later he became a Canadian. Mr. Ben-Menashe founded a number of private companies. One handles grain shipments to the developing world. But his principal concern is Dickens & Madson (Canada) Inc., of which he is president. Dickens & Madson has an office in downtown Montreal and a small number of employees; Mr. Ben-Menashe sometimes works from there, and sometimes from one of the two lofts he owns in Old Montreal.
He seems most comfortable inside his home on Rue Jean-Girard, where he lives with a woman to whom he was introduced years ago in Latvia (Mr. Ben-Menashe is twice divorced, and lost his first wife and child in a car accident in Nicaragua). He has an office on the top floor, next to a bedroom featuring a large walk-in closet that is filled with well-tailored suits. “None of my clothes fit me any more,” says Mr. Ben-Menashe, who turns 60 next month. Earlier this year, he took to heart a doctor’s advice and shed more than 20 kilograms. He doesn’t drink alcohol. He no longer eats wheat products. Or fruit. He refuses to give up coffee and cigarettes.
He is never without at least two cellphones, and is always juggling calls. He’s a non-stop talker. Conversations with Mr. Ben-Menashe are usually one-sided, with him recounting his latest missions abroad and telling elaborate tales of intrigue, some utterly fantastic, some not quite beyond belief. Stories that would give anyone pause–for example, his negotiations with Arthur Porter, which had the former SIRC chairman wiring Mr. Ben-Menashe $200,000 in personal funds in an effort to secure a $120 million infrastructure grant for Sierra Leone–have turned out to be true.
In 1992, the Village Voice newspaper published a profile of Mr. Ben-Menashe, headlined “The Trouble with Ari.” Investigative reporter Craig Unger wrote that “Ari has put five or six dozen journalists from all over the world through roughly the same paces. His seduction begins with a display of his mastery of the trade craft of the legendary Israeli intelligence services…Listen to him, trust him, print his story verbatim–then sit round and watch your career go up in flames.”
Fair warning. But here’s the real trouble with Ari: Despite what one has heard and what one knows of the man, and notwithstanding his past, he ruins careers because he can tell the truth.
“That’s ab-sol-utely correct,” says Mr. Ben-Menashe, pausing between syllables for maximum effect. It’s a favourite catchphrase of his, one he deploys when agreeing with someone. “He’s dead right now,” is another Ben-Menashe-ism. His father, a communist-turned successful businessman, and his devoted mother, who came rushing to New York when he was on trial, are both “dead right now.”
He speaks of his parents with some fondness, but Mr. Ben-Menashe is no teary sentimentalist. He keeps his family photos hidden inside a desk drawer. The only visible memento in his home office–aside from some well-thumbed books about spy craft–is a framed photograph of a woman with a small, fluffy dog. The woman is an old friend. The dog, named Burrows, once “saved” his life, he says dramatically. “I was alone with Burrows at my friends’ place in upstate New York and two strangers came up to the house. Burrows attacked them. He’s the only animal I’ve really ever liked. He’s dead right now.”
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Although born in Iran, and then raised, schooled, employed and married in Israel, Mr. Ben-Menashe still clings to his Iraqi-Jewish roots. “The idea of justice, doing the right thing, these are the things that stuck. That’s what we were brought up with. Iraqi Jews, as a whole, see themselves as the aristocracy of the Jews,” he says. “We are extremely well-educated people, and I’m not the only one. And we’ve really never had any connection with Israel. We weren’t part of the Zionist movement.”
But he did work for the Israeli government. “Yes, I did. That was an aberration. I happened to be the right guy at the right time. I spoke Farsi, Arabic, English. I knew the United States. But at some point I wasn’t seen as one of the boys. And while I honestly believed in Israel at the time, I eventually lost faith in it.”
Contrary to popular belief, he has never claimed to have worked for Mossad, the Israeli secret service, he insists. “I was a senior military intelligence officer for awhile. Then I was President Shamir’s foreign intelligence advisor for two years. It was security-related work. It’s all in the book.”
After settling in Canada in 1993, Mr. Ben-Menashe began making regular trips between Montreal and Ottawa, where, according to government documents obtained after access to information requests, he briefed Foreign Affairs officials from his knowledge of the Middle East, Africa and southeast Asia.
He created Dickens & Madson with a partner named Alexander Legault, an American-born businessman who was wanted in the U.S. on charges that he duped the Egyptian government into paying $7-million for a bogus shipment of frozen chickens. The pair worked together for the next 15 years, until Mr. Legault was finally picked up by police in Montreal, deported, and imprisoned.
In 2002, Mr. Ben-Menashe was again thrust in the international spotlight, after taking on as a client Morgan Tsvangirai, the main political rival to Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe. In what has been described as a nefarious double-cross, Mr. Ben-Menashe made video and audio recordings that purportedly revealed Mr. Tsvangirai plotting the assassination of President Mugabe. He then delivered the recordings to President Mugabe, a long-time friend and ally. Mr. Ben-Menashe and President Mugabe immediately signed their own consultancy deal that was worth more than $1-million. Mr. Tsvangirai was charged with treason and went to trial in Harare. Mr. Ben-Menashe became the prosecution’s star witness.
A verdict was rendered in 2004; Mr. Tsvangirai was acquitted. In his decision, the trial judge called Mr. Ben-Menashe’s courtroom behaviour as “very rude…he made gratuitous remarks…The witness was unpleasant and continued to exhibit contemptuous behaviour even after being warned by the court.”
Mr. Ben-Menashe says he has no regrets. “Tsvangirai is the one who approached us,” he insists. “He asked us to do a coup and kill Mugabe. I did not frame him. We do not do that. He just walked in. He approached the wrong guy.”
He says he has never been an “arms dealer,” as some media report. “I was working for the Israeli government and that’s what governments do. They build armies,” says Mr. Ben-Menashe. “They equip armies. But I never made any money from the sale of arms.”
Yet in his present capacity as president of Dickens & Madson, he helps arrange between countries the movement of military hardware. “We are consultants,” he shrugs. “If the governments we put together decide to trade arms, it’s not our problem. If two governments decide to have a military agreement, that’s their decision, not ours. We don’t even arrange shipments [of arms].”
The National Post recently obtained from independent sources a May 6, 2010, unsigned draft of a consultancy agreement between Dickens & Madson and the Office of the President of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, then occupied by one Laurent Gbagbo; the former academic was losing his grip on power and was facing a fall election that many observers expected him to lose.
The draft contract reads that Dickens & Madson “will put together a program that is aimed to stabilize the country and bring it under firm control of the President.” The proposal included the creation of “a new presidential guard (the President’s Foreign Legion) to be maintained under the direct command of the President. The force will include 20 Kamov KA-50/51 (Black Shark) helicopters and approximately 2,000 trained military personnel and will be equipped to quell any possible rebellion against the President. This force will be fully manned by foreign personnel until training of Ivorian nationals is completed.” On execution of the agreement, Dickens & Madson was to receive US$6 million, payable to its bank account at J.P. Morgan Chase in New York.
Mr. Ben-Menashe says the draft consultancy agreement was “drawn up” by parties other than Dickens & Madson and was neither finalized nor executed. However, an agreement was signed on May 20 by Mr. Ben-Menashe and Cote d’Ivoire’s ambassador to the United Nations, on behalf of President Gbagbo. Duly registered with the U.S. government under the FARA requirement, it makes no mention of Black Shark helicopters and military forces. Instead, it refers to lobbying services and “assistance in providing key personnel, training, equipment, technical assistance…to the greater benefit of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire” Again, Mr. Ben-Menashe’s company was to receive US$6-million on execution.
That agreement did go into effect, says Mr. Ben-Menashe, but was cancelled in April when Mr. Gbagbo was removed from office and arrested for refusing to honour results from the November, 2010, presidential election, which he lost. Mr. Gbagbo remains under house arrest. Cote d’Ivoire has a new president.
“You win some, you lose some,” says Mr. Ben-Menashe. But no matter; he’s got more business pending, in Africa and other places. He shows no sign of slowing down. “This is what I’m good at,” he says.”Pulling things together. Deal making.”
So he’s off again, next stop Hong Kong, where he has a single morning meeting scheduled. At the airport, he checks in with Cathay Pacific’s first class counter. The agent flips through his passport, which is stuffed with exotic visas. And he looks at his itinerary. Twice.
“You’re flying to Hong Kong and coming back the next day?” asks the agent, incredulous.
“That’s ab-sol-utely correct,” says Ari Ben-Menashe. “What, you don’t believe me?”
“That’s ab-sol-utely correct,” says Ari Ben-Menashe. “What, you don’t believe me?”
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Ari Ben–Menashe (Hebrew: ארי בן מנשה; born Tehran, 4 December 1951) is an Iranian-born Israeli businessman, security consultant and author. He was previously an employee of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate from 1977 to 1987 and an arms dealer.
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GHISLAINE Maxwell and her paedophile lover Jeffrey Epstein had been each Israeli spies who took photos of highly effective males having intercourse with underage women to blackmail them, their alleged Mossad handler has sensationally claimed.
The pair allegedly ran a “honey-trap” operation the place they would offer younger women to politicians as a way to squeeze them for info for the Israelis.
The unsubstantiated claims have been made by Ari Ben-Menashe who claims he’s a former Israeli spy.
Ben-Menashe claims that he was the “handler” of Ghislaine’s dad Robert Maxwell, who was additionally a spy, and that it was the previous newspaper baron who launched Epstein and his daughter to the Israeli intelligence company.
He makes the unverified claims in a brand new guide known as “Epstein: Useless Males Inform No Tales”, our on December 3.
In an unique preview of the guide, shared with Solar On-line, Ben-Menashe says: “Mr Epstein was the easy fool who was going round offering women to all types of politicians in america.
“See, f**king round just isn’t a criminal offense. It might be embarrassing, nevertheless it’s not a criminal offense.
“However f**king a fourteen-year-old lady is a criminal offense. And he was taking photographs of politicians f**king fourteen-year-old women—if you wish to get it straight.
“They [Epstein and Maxwell] would simply blackmail folks, they’d simply blackmail folks like that.”
Ben-Menashe is a mysterious Iranian-born Israeli businessman who claims to have labored for Mossad from 1977 to 1987.
He was arrested in 1989 within the US on arms dealing fees however was acquitted in 1990 after a jury accepted he was appearing on behalf of Israel.
Israel tried to distance themselves from him, with authorities sources saying he by no means had something to do with intelligence companies, though different information studies – in each the US and Israel – confirmed he did.
He later wrote a guide known as Earnings of Conflict: Contained in the US-Israeli Arms Community and within the early 1990s claimed that Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine’s dad, labored for Mossad.
The brand new guide takes this additional and claims Maxwell might have labored for different governments too as as a double or triple agent.
Ben-Menashe claims that regardless of studies Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell met within the early 90s in New York, they really met a lot earlier – by way of the socialite’s father.
He claims that Robert Maxwell launched Epstein to Mossad after which Ghislaine received concerned later.
Information from the British International Workplace, launched in 2003 seem to again the claims Robert Maxwell might have been a spy, with one report describing him as a “totally unhealthy character” who was being “financed by Russia” and one other saying his “questionable actions” had been dropped at the eye of the International Officer “on a number of events”.
Whereas the Maxwell household have at all times denied such studies, household pal Laura Goldman says within the guide: “My feeling is that he in all probability was an agent to the Russians, the Israelis, and the British. I consider that Ghislaine continued his work.”
It’s not recognized whether or not Maxwell and Epstein gathered any intelligence about pal Prince Andrew of their alleged espionage work – though the guide suggests the Royal was a goal.
John Dougan, who served as Deputy Sheriff in Palm Seashore, Florida on the time Epstein was in jail for his first slew of kid intercourse offenses, says he was given entry to Epstein’s case file – together with video tapes – in its entirety by Palm Seashore Police Detective Joseph Recarey, who later died unexpectedly aged 50.
Dougan managed to repeat the tapes, encrypt them and flee to Russia, the place he now lives.
Though he has not watched the encrypted recordsdata he tells Epstein: Useless Males Inform No Tales that he’s sure they include blackmail materials involving rich folks – and that Prince Andrew was a goal.
“Do I feel that Epstein was in all probability put as much as getting some rich folks to sleep with some underage ladies so these folks might be black- mailed by Western intelligence companies? Completely I do,” he mentioned.
MI6 had been “involved that Russia might have obtained kompromat, compromising materials, on Prince Andrew,” in accordance with a Instances report – though Dougan claims he has given no info to the Russians.
Epstein was discovered useless in his New York jail cell on August 10 after allegedly committing suicide, whereas he confronted fees for intercourse trafficking minors.
Melissa Cronin, the guide’s writer, believes that Epstein’s alleged intelligence hyperlinks add weight to the speculation that he didn’t kill himself however was murdered.
She additionally factors to Epstein’s and Maxwell’s hyperlinks with distinguished folks from the science and know-how industries – and believes the pair not solely ran a honeypot operation but additionally an information-gathering operation.
“Earlier than I began with the guide, I used to be extraordinarily skeptical of the homicide concept.,” she informed Solar On-line.
“I’m positively not a conspiracy theorist by nature in any respect, however the extra that we dug into this, there’s simply a lot incontrovertible proof about his work on the planet of espionage, his work with Mossad and all of it comes collectively to make a very compelling argument for the truth that he was murdered.
“I feel one factor that’s fascinating and necessary to say is that Epstein wasn’t essentially a spy within the conventional sense, he wasn’t significantly loyal to Israel per se, he was a collector of knowledge.
“So in fact there was the blackmail side of what he was doing when it comes to the honey entice and getting this footage of those who he may use as leverage.
“On the similar time, one thing that lots of people haven’t actually explored is how he cultivated these relationships inside science and know-how.
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“We get actually deep into that within the guide and to how he was assembly with and extracting actually delicate info from scientists and eminent theorists and issues like that.
“That materials – in all probability much more so than the blackmail materials – is what actually could be of curiosity to a overseas energy equivalent to Israel.”
Ghislaine Maxwell has beforehand denied any wrongdoing. Solar On-line reached out to her representatives for Maxwell. Representatives for the Israeli authorities didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Epstein: Useless Males Inform No Tales is out in the present day.
“On November 23, 2019, at 10:00 p.m., three males riding in a black Mercedes Benz approached the agent in the corner of Cacique Street and Las Americas Avenue in the Ocean Park community of San Juan. The agent was held at gunpoint and the three men made away with his wallet, FBI credentials, and official duty weapon.”
M.N.: This does not look like the ordinary robbery. It looks like a part of ongoing investigation of the San Juan branch of the FBI. Hopefully, something good and true will come out of it.
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SAN JUAN—Special Agent in Charge Douglas Leff announced that the FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information resulting in the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individuals responsible for the armed robbery and attempted carjacking of an FBI San Juan special agent.
On November 23, 2019, at 10:00 p.m., three males riding in a black Mercedes Benz approached the agent in the corner of Cacique Street and Las Americas Avenue in the Ocean Park community of San Juan. The agent was held at gunpoint and the three men made away with his wallet, FBI credentials, and official duty weapon.
The FBI asks that anyone with information on the identity and location of the men responsible for this crime, as well as the whereabouts of the stolen FBI property, should come forward. Tipsters can remain anonymous.
Anyone with information regarding this incident should contact the FBI San Juan Field Office at 787-754-6000 or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.
The public is reminded that all individuals are innocent until proven guilty.
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“Douglas Leff” is the telling name, and I do not think, that this is his real name. It is his FBI name.
“dağlas or dağliq“ – “mountainous”, in translation from Azerbaijani and Turkish
Leff – is a common Ashkenazi last name,
Lev – from Russian: Lion
Leff Name Meaning
Americanized spelling of Jewish Lev.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names
“Douglas Leff” = the “Mountain Lion“;
a reference to his Mountain Jewish origins, and to his claimed fearlessness, which is the reaction formation to his fearfulness.
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A Ukrainian prosecutor who aided Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s search for damaging information on former Vice President Joe Biden was among hundreds of prosecutors fired in a sweeping anti-corruption purge.
Kostiantyn Kulyk, one of Giuliani’s earliest contacts in Ukraine, was given a dismissal notice last week after failing to show up for an exam that was part of a review process for prosecutors held over from the previous administration, The Washington Post reported. More than 500 prosecutors have been fired as part of the review.
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Kulyk has denied meeting Giuliani, but his former associates say he prepared a seven-page dossier, which was passed along to Giuliani, according to The Post.
The former prosecutor later appeared in a report by The Hill’s John Solomon, to whom Giuliani fed dubious claims to fuel the debunked narrative that Biden had a prosecutor terminated while he was investigating a Ukrainian firm that employed his son. Kulyk also helped fuel what former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch described as a Giuliani-led smear campaign to get her fired. The prosecutor told Solomon that Yovanovitch blocked him and other officials from getting a visa to travel to the U.S. to share information about his findings.
Giuliani told The Blaze host Glenn Beck last month that he used Solomon to push the claims in the U.S. Senior State Department official George Kent also testified last month that Solomon’s reporting, “if not entirely made up in full cloth,” was filled with “non-truths and non-sequiturs.”
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Kulyk was just one Ukrainian prosecutor with whom Giuliani dealt. Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko, who was fired from his position earlier this year and is now under a criminal investigation for corruption, fed Giuliani and Solomon false information about Biden and Yovanovitch. He has since retracted his claims and acknowledged that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden.
Documents obtained by media outlets last week showed that Giuliani was negotiating a contract with Lutsenko, which would have paid Giuliani upwards of $500,000 to represent him even as he was purportedly representing President Donald Trump in his search for damaging information on his opponents.
The draft contracts included proposed payments to Trump-allied attorneys Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing. A separate draft agreement called for Toensing to be paid $25,000 a month to represent former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
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Shokin is the prosecutor at the heart of Trump’s conspiracy theory about Biden. During the Obama years, Biden pressed for Ukraine to fire Shokin, because multiple western countries complained that he was not pursuing corruption investigations. Trump and his allies have claimed that Biden pushed for Shokin’s firing while the prosecutor was investigating Burisma, a company whose board included his son. But that investigation, which was not connected to Biden, had already been shut down at the time of Shokin’s firing.
The draft agreement with Toensing, which was not executed, was for “the purpose of collecting evidence regarding his March 2016 firing as prosecutor general of Ukraine and the role of then-Vice President Joe Biden in such firing, and presenting such evidence to U.S. and foreign authorities.”
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The three fired prosecutors were only a few of the legally-imperiled individuals who helped fuel Trump’s conspiracy theories.
Kremlin-linked oligarch Dmytro Firtash told The New York Times that he paid diGenova and Toensing $1.2 million after since-indicted Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman pressed him to change his lawyers as he faced extradition to the U.S. to face bribery and racketeering charges. Parnas’ attorney told The Times that he “informed Mr. Firtash that Toensing and diGenova were interested in collecting information on the Bidens,” which Firtash told the outlet he did not have.
The Times reported that Giuliani’s associates also reached out to Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, who is himself facing an FBI money-laundering investigation, but were rebuffed.
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Since their Ukraine travail, Parnas and Fruman were indicted on charges that they illegally funneled foreign money to Republican politicians in the U.S. Parnas’ attorneys have said he is willing to testify that he tried to extort Ukraine into investigating the Bidens on the orders of Trump and Giuliani, which both parties deny.
Giuliani’s dealings with Parnas, Fruman and a who’s who of corrupt Ukrainian officials have also caught the eye of federal prosecutors. Subpoenas issued by prosecutors in recent weeks show that the Department of Justice is considering possible charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., money laundering, mail fraud, wire fraud, making false statements to the federal government, failure to register as a foreign agent, donating funds from foreign nationals, making contributions in a false name and obstruction of justice, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Trump appeared to attempt to distance himself from Giuliani in an interview with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly last week, claiming that he did not “direct” Giuliani to go to Ukraine on his behalf and suggesting that his efforts in the country may have been for “clients other than me.” Trump made the claim despite personally urging Ukraine to work with Giuliani on the investigations on a July 25 phone call at the heart of the impeachment inquiry against him and Giuliani’s insistence that “my only client is the president of the United States.”
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Republicans in Congress have also suggested that they may throw Giuliani under the bus to protect Trump. Fox News host Steve Hilton on Sunday helped boost that case, also adding Toensing and diGenova to the list of allies whom the president should cut loose.
“Rudy Giuliani was a great mayor and a great leader, but he’s turned into an unmitigated and now it seems unethical disaster,” he said. “While President Trump has been trying to govern for the American people, all these hangers-on have been trying to make money for themselves off Trump.”
Giuliani said on Twitter that he was “outraged” at Hilton’s comments.
“I have not taken a penny for representing my friend, President Trump,” and “I have considered and turned down all deals in Ukraine,” he claimed before threatening to “sue him for libel.”
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But former federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah told MSNBC that a “subpoena with eight different crimes listed on it” suggests that Giuliani “is up to his eyeballs in crime.”
She added, “I would be surprised at this point if Rudy Giuliani didn’t get indicted.”
This Is Still Happening is a feature in which Slate offers recurring updates on Cabinet-level corruption, what could be done to bring the officials to account, and what Democrats are doing in response (generally, nothing). The latest installment is about a man at the center of the scandal that will likely result in President Donald Trump’s impeachment, Mike Pompeo.
The Official: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
What Is Still Happening: President Donald Trump is ever closer to being formally impeached for a scheme to pressure and, according to key witnesses, bribe Ukraine into announcing an investigation of his political opponents, including the Democratic National Committee and former Vice President Joe Biden. As part of that effort, Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani worked hand in hand with the State Department to instruct the Ukrainians how they might meet Trump’s apparent demands. That State Department is run by Mike Pompeo, who has his fingerprints all over the Ukraine plot.
Before the Ukraine news broke, the top-of-his-class West Point graduate, ex-CIA chief, former Kansas congressman, and former Army officer was considered one of the top potential political heirs to Trump in the Republican Party. Now, as he hints at a potential Senate run in Kansas in 2020, the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives has turned up a pile of documents and testimony demonstrating the length and depth of his apparent involvement in the scandal, and his efforts to deceive Congress and the public about it:
• Emails revealed that Pompeo spoke with Giuliani at least twice in March, while the president’s attorney was undertaking a “smear campaign“ against Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and attempting to pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump’s political rivals. One month later, Pompeo removed Yovanovitch from the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.
• A letter revealed that Pompeo’s office misled Congress about the reasons for Yovanovitch’s removal. The email suggested it was a routine matter of her having been “due to complete her three-year diplomatic assignment,” an event that “aligns with the presidential transition in Ukraine.” In reality, Yovanovitch was understood to be continuing at her post until she was abruptly ordered to come home on the “next plane”—for the sake of her “security”—in the middle of the night. Yovanovitch was never given a reason for why she was recalled, and State Department officials testified that it had nothing to do with her job performance. When asked about all this at a press briefing at the end of November, Pompeo refused to answer.
• Congressional testimony and an email provided to Congress by Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, revealed that Pompeo was “in the loop” throughout the Ukraine affair. Specifically, Pompeo was informed on July 19, one week before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s phone call with Trump, that Zelensky had been prepped to tell Trump “he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will ‘turn over every stone.’ ” On that July 25 call, Trump asked Zelensky to investigate, as a “favor,” Biden and his son Hunter, as well as a conspiracy theory that Ukraine was behind the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee.
• Pompeo revealed in October that he was on that July 25 call. This came after a series of Sunday morning news interviews in which he suggested he had no idea what happened on the call. For example, in an interview with Fox News’ John Roberts before the call transcript was released, Pompeo was asked about “reporting in the Wall Street Journal that the president asked Zelensky about eight times to have the Ukraine work with his attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s involvement in Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company.” Pompeo flatly lied: “You’re asking me to comment on […] some reporting, I have no idea if that has any foundation whatsoever,” he told Roberts.
• Sondland’s testimony and an Aug. 11 email further revealed the extent to which Pompeo was in the loop. In an email addressed directly to Pompeo, his executive secretary Lisa Kenna was told about a statement about investigations that Sondland and Kurt Volker, special U.S. envoy to Ukraine, had negotiated with the Ukrainians in order to secure a White House meeting with Trump. The email read: “Mike – Kurt and I negotiated a statement from Ze[lensky] to be delivered for our review in a day or two. The contents will hopefully make the boss happy enough to authorize an invitation.” Kenna responded that she would pass the message to Pompeo.
• An Aug. 22 email revealed that Pompeo was aware the Trump administration’s Ukraine agenda was being conditioned on Zelensky using the country’s justice department to satisfy Trump. That email from Sondland, which requested a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Zelensky during a scheduled trip to Warsaw, read: “Should we block time in Warsaw for a short pull-aside for Potus to meet Zelensky? I would ask Zelensky to look him in the eye and tell him that once Ukraine’s new justice folks are in place (mid-Sept[ember), that Ze should be able to move forward publicly and with confidence on those issues of importance to Potus and to the US. Hopefully, that will break the logjam.” Pompeo responded: “Yes.”
Sondland testified to Congress that “logjam” meant the previously promised White House meeting and $390 million in military aid that were being withheld on Trump’s orders. The State Department denied that Sondland told Pompeo that he believed aid was tied to investigations of political opponents, but did not deny that is what happened.
• Sondland’s testimony revealed that the decision to inform the Ukrainians on Sept. 1 “that the resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine took some kind of action on” investigations was “based on my communications with Secretary Pompeo.”
• Sondland testified that the “State Department was fully supportive of our engagement in Ukraine affairs, and was aware that a commitment to investigations was among the issues we were pursuing.” As evidence, Sondland cited an email from Pompeo on Sept. 4 in which he told Sondland: “You’re doing great work; keep banging away.”
• Sondland testified that even after the conspiracy was uncovered, “as late as September 24, Secretary Pompeo was directing Kurt Volker to speak with Rudy Giuliani.” This is according to a WhatsApp message that Volker sent Sondland. The transcript of the July 25 call was released that day.
• Rather than recuse himself from responding to a congressional investigation of wrongdoing in which he apparently had a central part, Pompeo demanded that State Department employees not cooperate with the probe (many ignored his demand) and refused to turn over a single relevant document to the inquiry. As he has obstructed Congress every step of the way, Pompeo has also lied about it. During a State Department briefing just before Thanksgiving, Pompeo suggested to reporters that he was complying with congressional oversight. “We continue to comply with all of the legal requirements,” he said. “[W]e’ll continue to [release documents] as required by law and as appropriate so that appropriate oversight can be conducted.”
• Pompeo has falsely asserted that Biden and former President Barack Obama may have withheld military aid “because of Hunter Biden.” He is also still pushing Trump’s conspiracy theory that Ukraine may have been responsible for the 2016 DNC hack, telling reporters before Thanksgiving that “any time there is information that indicates that any country has messed with American elections, we not only have a right, but a duty to make sure we chase that down.”
How Long It Has Been Going On: The secretary’s involvement in the Ukraine scheme seems to date back at least to March, but Pompeo has been advancing—or at least “investigating”—Trump’s unfounded pet claims and conspiracy theories about Ukraine and Russia since he was in his last job as director of the CIA, at the start of the administration.
In October 2017, for instance, Pompeo falsely stated that “the intelligence community’s assessment is that the Russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election.” The CIA never made that determination and the agency had to subsequently clarify that its assessment had not changed.
The following month, at Trump’s request, Pompeo met with a proponent of a conspiracy theory that Russia had not hacked the DNC, but that it had been an “inside job.” The meeting came three days before former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was indicted on criminal conspiracy charges stemming from his work in Ukraine, which was funded by corrupt, pro-Russian political actors. While he was on the campaign, Manafort advocated the conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine and not Russia that hacked the DNC. After Trump’s inauguration in 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin also pushed the theory that Ukraine had meddled in the 2016 election. Again, as recently as Nov. 26, 2019, Pompeo said that it was his “duty” to look into any such allegations.
What Would Normally Happen: Under previous administrations, a scandal of this magnitude would force top lieutenants to the president to resign. It would also likely lead to a presidential impeachment.
What Democrats Have Done: Democrats have opened an impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump.
What Is Likely to Be Done: Democrats are likely to impeach Trump. If Republicans in the Senate determine not to remove Trump for the bribery scheme, what happens to Pompeo after that is unclear. Democrats could conceivably impeach Pompeo for all the same charges—obstruction of Congress, abuse of power, bribery—if their impeachment of Trump fails to remove the president. They could also subpoena Pompeo to testify and hold him in contempt of Congress for his failure to turn over documents. If a Senate trial fails to remove Trump, though, then it’s hard to imagine that Democrats will have the appetite to go after Pompeo with the same set of facts for the same alleged wrongdoing. The Department of Justice could also conceivably investigate what happened in Ukraine under federal bribery statutes, potentially implicating Pompeo. It’s clear that Attorney General William Barr will not allow such an investigation to go forward, but the episode could get a criminal investigation under a Democratic president in 2021.
In the meantime, it’s been reported almost daily that Pompeo is considering a 2020 run for the Kansas Senate seat being opened up by Sen. Pat Roberts’ retirement. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has urged Pompeo to run, and Pompeo appeared with McConnell on Monday at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center. New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (no stranger himself to corruption complaints) has filed a complaint about Pompeo’s habit of finding occasions, using his position at secretary of state, to make repeated trips to Kansas. If Democrats can’t—or won’t—force Pompeo’s removal from office, they may be forced to try to beat him at the ballot box in a very red state.
How Impeachable This Stuff Is: As the second thing listed when the founders came up with impeachable offenses, “bribery” is really, really impeachable. That is why the president is likely to be impeached for it. 10 out of 10.
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