election with the very same allegations we are still running through the political spin cycle every week in this committee. i asked you and to the parnassus letter into the record. in this extraordinary letter, he describes the campaign to dig up dirt on the bidens and spread misinformation through various networks, including government officials, fox news personnel. after explaining this campaign to fabricate corruption charges, parnas concludes his letter by saying the extensive campaigns and networking done by trump allies and giuliani associates including the enormously thorough interviews and assignments that i undertook, there has never been any evidence that hunter or joe biden committed any crimes related to ukrainian politics. never during any of my communications with ukrainian officials or connections to
federal prosecutor at the southern district of new york, where later i would work along with alvin bragg. actually who was a colleague of mine. pomeranz came out of retirement a couple of years ago to join the manhattan d. a s investigation of donald trump by his own statement. since then, pomerantz has said he was essentially obsessed with nailing donald trump. now alvin bragg takes over as the d a. about a year ago and early 2022 pomerantz brings alvin bragg a half baked case relating to donald trump s valuation of assets and brag, says it s not ready yet. what is pomerance do ? he doesn t do more work he quits and he goes on a publicity tour, and he writes a book giving away all sorts of stuff that s happening inside the d. a s office now. alvin bragg, many other former prosecutors, prosecutors associations came out and said pomerantz is undermining the investigation. he s giving away inside secrets . his book is called an inside account. and now sure enough, as a result of that jim
deripaska. he is charged with money laundering and sanctions laws because of work he did once he left the bureau. started working or a sanctioned russian oligarch because of his close ties to russian president vladimir putin. what authorities say is that as you said. he was he supervised investigations into oligarchs and immediately went and started working for him after retiring. he was hired to dig up dirt and hid this relationship by using a shell company and forging signaturing to try to keep the path ewa from him so no one could detect this. that wasn t just it. also charged by prosecutors in washington, d.c. with failing to disclose $225,000 payments he received from a former employee of an albanian intelligence agency, and that payment was
jolly knew it, and here s how we saw it clearly. we ve seen the change in the republican caucus. while kevin mccarthy and all of the others that have tried to kind of navigate this, you know, old republican donor class, new maga world, you know, environment, they don t realize just how crazy the conference has gotten over the last few years. jolly knows this better than anybody. here s one prime example, byron donalds, this man they re putting up now as the alternative speaker candidate. he replaced francis rooney. he was a house member that was one of the rare only one or two that was open to the first trumped impeachment. rooney gets run out on a rail because he just expressed openness to the fact that, hey, maybe we should look at the evidence hear about whether the president of the united states was threatening one of our ally in order to dig up dirt on his political opponents.