Authored by John Solomon via JustTheNews.com,
A Ukrainian court has ordered an investigation into whether Joe Biden violated any laws when he forced the March 2016 firing of the country’s chief prosecutor.
The ruling could revive scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s lucrative relationship with an energy firm in that corruption-plagued country just as the former vice president’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is surging after a lackluster start.
Former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who has long alleged he was fired because he would not stop investigating the Burisma Holdings firm that employed Hunter Biden, secured the ruling last month. Ukrainian officials confirmed the State Bureau of Investigation has since complied and initiated the probe.
The Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv ruled last month that Shokin’s lawyers had provided sufficient evidence to warrant a probe and “obliged the authorized officials of the State Bureau of Investigation” to accept the ex-prosecutor’s complaint and “start pre-trial investigation of the reported data,” according to an official English translation of the ruling provided by Shokin’s attorney.
The ruling does not mention Biden by name, but court filings by Shokin’s lawyers that led to the decision show that the former prosecutor had alleged “the commission of a criminal offense against him by Joseph Biden, a citizen of the United States of America, in Ukraine and abroad: interference in the activities of a law enforcement officer.”
Ukraine officials say the court-ordered investigation could include a review of non-public documents and possibly even interviews.
The court order revives allegations that were at the center of President Trump’s recent impeachment and acquittal, and which have dogged Joe Biden since he boasted in a 2018 video interview that he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S.-backed loan guarantees if Ukraine’s then-President Petro Poroshenko did not fire Shokin as the country’s chief prosecutor.
Shokin alleges he was fired on March 29, 2016 specifically because his office refused to shut down a long-running corruption investigation into Burisma, one of Ukraine’s larger natural gas companies. The firm hired Hunter Biden as a board member in spring 2014, shortly after Joe Biden was named by President Obama to oversee Ukraine-U.S. relations. Records gathered by the FBI show Hunter Biden’s American firm was paid more than $3 million between 2014 and 2016.
President Trump’s private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, asked the State Department and Ukraine officials back in 2019 to investigate the Bidens, an act which gave rise to the impeachment proceedings,
During impeachment testimony, multiple State Department officials said they believed the Bidens’ arrangement created the appearance of a conflict of interest and that the department even blocked a business deal with Burisma at one point over concerns the company was corrupt.
Joe Biden and his defenders have denied any wrongdoing, saying the vice president sought Shokin’s firing because the prosecutor was ineffective in fighting corruption. His supporters have also claimed that the Burisma investigation was dormant at the time Shokin was fired and therefore not a high priority.
But evidence has emerged in recent weeks that the probe into Burisma, in fact, was heating up when Shokin was fired in spring 2016. The prosecutor’s office had secured a ruling re-seizing assets of Burisma’s owner in early February 2016, and the Latvian government acknowledges it sent a warning to Ukraine officials that same month flagging several Burisma transactions, including payments to Hunter Biden, as “suspicious.”
Documents recently released under the Freedom of Information Act also show Burisma’s lawyers were pressuring the State Department in February 2016 to end the corruption allegations against the firm, even invoking Hunter Biden’s name as the reason.
And Shokin himself says he was making plans to interview Hunter Biden, an act that likely would have garnered major attention in the United States as Democrats were trying to defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Hunter Biden recently left Burisma’s board and said he believes in retrospect it was bad judgment to join the Ukraine company while his father oversaw U.S.-Ukraine relations. He also acknowledged he likely got the job because of his last name.
Whatever Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation does, the emergence of an investigation in Ukraine focusing attention on the Biden’s ethics comes at an unwelcome time for Joe Biden, whose presidential campaign lagged for months but got a jolt over the weekend when he won convincingly in South Carolina’s primary.
Biden’s momentum continued Monday on the eve of the critical Super Tuesday elections when rivals Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg dropped from the 2020 Democratic presidential race and announced plans to endorse the former vice president.
While the Ukraine probe just gets started, a separate investigation launched by Republicans in the U.S. Senate has been growing for weeks as investigators seek documents on Hunter Biden’s finances, his overseas travels with the vice president and possible interviews with Ukraine officials.
For a more complete timeline of key events in the Ukraine scandal, click here.
via zerohedge
That POS soetoro, knew what was going on, and he should be in jail, or execute along with biden!
I agree with you Mr. martin smith III, but The PLD Squad alias The Corrupt Quartet, Mrs. HRC. Mrs. Maxine “The Loud And Rude Mouthed And Inciter Of Violence” Waters, Mrs. Pelosi And Mr. Schumer, Mr. Nadler And M. Adam “Schifty” Schiff And A lot More Of The US Political Left needs to be included in The Whole 2016 Conspiracy Also, Oh Wait, There Is One More, which has to include Mr. Soros Family Too!!!
And…. As long as geo soresss is alive and shucking out the big bucks, NOTHING will happen to these friggin crooks. I mean, look at how many deaths have been attributed to the cliton cartel, and the benghazi bitch is STILL walking freely!# 😥😪😞😰😒
WOW…..this is heavy but very good news. Perhaps it will be the Ukrainians that will get to the bottom of the Biden debacle, as it seems that USA court “anything” is ineffective at getting investigations started and completed towards an indictment. If the allegations are even half true….the Biden machine needs to be shut down. He truly is…”Quid Pro Joe”
Yes.. scamming people and bribes and black mail is breaking the laws
The Bidens and the Democrats have no ne to blame but themselves. This all was opened and publicized by their ill-fated, and poorly managed impeachment attempt of President Trump. If they did not impeach the President, Biden’s business dealing probably would have slipped under the radar and would have been no more than political accusation by the opposing GOP in a crazy election season, But the impeachment and even Adam Schiff’s own comments trying to accuse Trump of wrong doing brought out Hunter Biden’s corrupt business relationship, and Joe Biden’s bragging video about getting the prosecutor fired. just shows, that PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES, SHOULDN’T THROW STONES.
Bidens and the Democrats have none to blame but themselves. Impeach old joe.
Impeach him from what? He is not in a political office.
Well I hope that the Ukrainian investigators get to the bottom of this and demand Bidens hide. It sure seems at this time our own investigators lack the ability to get to the bottom of anything that we Americans want to see done. We want people behind bars for their evil criminal doings. McCabe, Brennen, Clapper, Comey, Clintons, and all the others in the FBI and DOJ that back stabbed our President and we the American people. This could be the end of Joseph Biden Presidential bid if our DOJ and the Ukrainians do their job with out the Democrats threatening them.. The White House should be taking all security clearances from all persons who no longer work for the US Government and those with in that have betrayed the trust of having one such as Lying Shifty Schiff. Clintons should have thier removed and even Obama since he travels all over the world down playing the USA which he hates. I still say all Secrete Service protection of past Presidents and VP’s should be revoked after two years out of office. We should not be paying for their protection and limo’s etc. after they are no longer President or VP.. All security clearances should be void with in one month of leaving office.
I agree full heartily. One has to remember though, just before Obama left office he changed the law that after 8 years the ex president and family no longer would have ss protection to lifetime protection.
Just think if ole Biden were to get elected (he won’t) of how much money they could make selling the office, just like they did before and the Clinton’s have always done. Always wondered how much Obama received from the cash he gave to Iran.
If Biden wins presidency does Adam Shitts begin impeachment
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=joe+biden+bragging+about+blackmailing+ukraine&view=detail&mid=A04D5FCCD3C12B11BD16A04D5FCCD3C12B11BD16&FORM=VI
Watch as Sleepy Joe brags about his having extorted the then Ukrainian President
Joe Biden is on video at the Council on Foreign Relations bragging about committing the crimes of bribery, extortion and engineering a pay-for-play scheme. Why has he not been charged?
If Biden is found guilty of a crime in Ukraine and Ukraine wants to extradite him can Trump permit extradition, will he? It would be nice if it occurred before November. Maybe a phone call would speed up the investigation?
When The Demonrats are in Power,they are so Cocky in Their Illegal Acts!,Because they know the Corrupt National Media will Never do their job and investigate or even report on any thing that they do! Biden has been living off of the Tax Payers Dime for over 50 years!, he has used his Position as a Senator and as Vice President to enrich his self and his Family through all kinds of Illegal and Immoral practices!,and If He would some how Win The Presidency,Our Country Would be Doomed!,He is Nothing But an Old Senile Lifelong Politician who is Corrupt and Probably suffering from the beginning stages of Deminta!,The Only House Biden needs to be Residing at,is a Federal Prison for the Rest of his Adult Life!
The head of the Biden Crime Family may actually be called to account for some of his nefarious dealings. Obama may not be able to bail him out. Keep up the good work, Ukraine!
Investigate, indict, prosecute, convict, and imprison this demented and deteriorating Democrat.
Maybe they should investigate the corruption of the Obama administration even a blind eye can hide the truth and the corruption that exist within are own government and and a justice system that is afraid to prosecute these criminals nobody goes to jail so they continue their corrupt way because they are above the law?
I don’t see how being investigated in a foreign country will effect Joe Biden, or even Hunter Biden. We don’t have extradition treaties with Ukraine. They are not a U.S. ally. Trump is building a relationship with Ukraine, but Congress does not want one. There’s a REASON all the demonrats ran over there to profit off the corruption in Ukraine. The Biden family is not the only demonrats who did so. All demons have ways to overcome the ’embarrassment’ of being caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They do it all the time. You see it in the news daily. What’s different about THIS?
I hope the Durham report comes out well before the 2020 election, and the Senate can get the ball rolling on prosecutions, that might possibly include Joe Biden. We already know it probably will include Comey, Clapper, Brennen, Srtzok, Page, Baker, Yates, Boente, the Ohrs, Lynch and Holder. But, possibly Pill-osi, and Schiffty. SO many others helped with the farces against Trump since he was elected, but they are all protected. I fear we will be lucky to get even one ‘scapgoat’, who may not represent anything of significance.
Been saying all along, since he poked his head up out of his hole-in-the-ground, he will not be President of the USA. Even if the Durham report does little to ‘convict’ him of wrong doing, the evidence will stain his character, and leave and even worse taste in voter’s mouths. There are too many of his ‘supporters’ (reluctant voters) who question his “elderly” status, and cognitive abilities. He’s perfect for the DNC, and old guard establishment Washington; but will he be viable in 4 years?
A double standard if your a Demo-Rat you get a pass in this country but not in the Ukraine now is there immunity because he was the Vice President at that time. I don’t know that’s for his lawyers to fight it out. Also about expedition to the Ukraine to stand trial that might be up to the U.S. Courts to decide Joe Biden’s faith. Another cloud over his nomination. Just look at the facts don’t brag that you did something wrong especially to the TV cameras in front of millions of watchers.
the demoncrat media has a simple reply. “these charges have been de-bunked and constitute a conspiracy theory.” “it is only natural that every relative of lunch-pail joe should be a billionaire.” after all, once elected, joe will be the smartest person in the world.
No member of the Obama Clinton Cabal will even be mildly criticized let alone prosecuted until after the election when Trump appoints a new Attorney General. Then the entire Cabal and half of Washington DC will begin to worry.
Until then, Bush Boy Barr will protect his pals in the Obama Clinton Cabal.
I have zero pity on Creepy Quid Pro Quo Joe or his dead beat dad son, Hunter. The elder biden was so ignorant & pompous he just couldn’t resist bragging about his actions, his very own quid pro quo. We’ve already seen much evidence of money laundering by Burisma in the form of bogus loans that eventually made their way back to the DNC. The whole thing stinks to high Heaven and is far more than just having the “appearance” of wrong doing & definitely more than “bad judgement” by Hunter. These lying scum knew exactly what they were doing but think We The People are too inferior to possibly understand or see what was going on.
I find it preposterous that dead beat dad Hunter claims to be broke after being paid MILLIONS by Burisma and Lord Knows how much from the CHICOMS & who knows where else he profited from daddy’s name.
Only problem I see is it must be done NOW not three months from now!!!!!
Trump deserves 4 more years but Joe and Hunter Biden each deserves more than 10 years, without the possibility of parole.
Nope they don’t punish their own