applied to yuriy lutsenko, and rudy giuliani who feared that the ambassador would stand in his way of the corrupt efforts to coerce ukraine into conducting investigations that would benefit the political efforts of his client, president trump. giuliani s coordinated smear campaign against ambassador yovanovitch became public in the united states in late march of 2019 with the publication of a series of opinion pieces in the the hill based on interviews with lutsenko. on march 20th, 2019, in one piece in the hill lutsenko falsely alleged that ambassador yovanovitch had given him a so-called do not prosecute list. not only was the allegation false, but after having originated the claim, lutsenko himself would go on the retract it. the same piece also falsely
rudy jew rudy giuliani who feared they would coerse ukraine into conducting investigations to benefit his client, president trump. giuliani s coordinated smear campaign against ambassador yovanovitch became public in late march 2018, with a publication of a series of opinion pieces in the hill, based on interviews with lutsenko. on march 20th, 2019, in one piece in the hill, lutsenko denied giving him a so-called do not prosecute list. not only was the allegation false, but after helping originate the claim, lutsenko himself would later retract it.
transactions in the burisma accounts. march 20th, 2019, the general prosecutor s office agreed to the request opened an investigation, and they filed a 15 page notice of suspicion, alleging that there may be illicit arms that were running through burisma through 2010 come all the way through 2015. that s important, because hunter biden was on the board for 2014 and 2015. specifically, that notice of suspicion said they were looking at the possibility that the $3.4 million paid to hunter biden s firm may have been part of the illicit funds moving through the company. a month later, in april, the prosecutor s office, open source intelligence again, u.s. government officials confirming they were aware of this, made a request of another investigative agency in ukraine for assistance in going through these bank records. that is a significant change in the timeline.e. it was omitted from the whistle-blower s complaint, and the question is, did he not know it, or did he exclude it because
burisma investigation. you can check that with a general prosecutor s office in ukraine. march 20th, 2019, way before the president pressed president pressed president zelensky, the prosecutor general s office announced and they filed a notice of suspicion that they were opening the burisma case and looking at the transactions that hunter biden s company. you call that office and get those. those are the facts, would you put them on the timeline, that you have to look at before we get to a conclusion. martha: that raises an interesting question. you look back at all of us, it appears that both joe biden andn pushing the ukraine to do things that work better for them, right? that work better for the way that they see the world. joe biden felt like there was a club prosecutor, he wanted that person moved aside. we know that person had been looking into burisma, questions about the timeline which i know you can address. on the other side, you have president trump and his people who beli