Rudy Giuliani’s cartoonishly inept dirt-digging operation in Ukraine would not have been possible without Dmitry Firtash, the shady Ukrainian natural gas magnate who has spent at least $1 million investigating the Biden family. Firtash has found himself at the heart of a sprawling international corruption investigation before. In 2006, he flew to India, where, according to American authorities, he offered officials an $18.5 million bribe to acquire the mining rights for minerals integral to the production of Boeing 787 airplanes. That year, FBI officials began investigating Firtash; they knew then that he had ties to some of Eastern Europe’s most …read more
Source:: The New Republic
