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The New York Times - What Happened Today in the Trump Impeachment Inquiry
Oct. 11, 2019
- Marie Yovanovitch, the former American ambassador to Ukraine, told impeachment investigators in a closed-door interview that a top State Department official told her that President Trump had pushed for her removal even though the department believed she had “done nothing wrong.”
- Ms. Yovanovitch said people associated with Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, “may well have believed that their personal financial ambitions were stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.”
- Gordon Sondland, the American ambassador to the European Union, like Ms. Yovanovitch, agreed to comply with a House subpoena and testify, defying a State Department order not to appear.
Ms. Yovanovitch delivered her searing account before Congress at the risk of losing her job, since the White House has ordered officials not to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.
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The Washington Post - How two Soviet-born emigres made it into elite Trump circles - and the center of the impeachment storm
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, flanked by attorneys Kevin Downing, left, and Thomas Zehnle, right, appear before U.S. Judge Michael Nachmanoff in federal court in Alexandria on Thursday.
12 October
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[in 2016] Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-born emigre, ... made a $50,000 donation to Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party, and it quickly opened doors.
The contribution helped propel Parnas and his business partner, Belarus-born Igor Fruman, on an extraordinarily rapid rise into the upper echelon of Trump allies - before they became central figures in the presidential impeachment inquiry.
By spring 2018, the two men had dined with Trump, breakfasted with his son and attended exclusive events at Mar-a-Lago and the White House, all while jetting around the world and spending lavishly, particularly at Trump hotels in New York and Washington. ...
Where Parnas and Fruman got their money remains a mystery. ...
Parnas and Fruman’s myriad political and business ventures came to an abrupt halt Wednesday.
The duo had lunched that day with Giuliani at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, according to the Wall Street Journal.*
Hours later, they were at Dulles Airport, about to board a plane to Europe, when authorities in the hallway stopped them and asked to see their passports ...
Soon, about a dozen plainclothes investigators converged on the scene, and the two men were led away.
* as previously posted by @freitasm
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