Section: US & Canada
Ukraine: Court ruling on law means end for corruption cases
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court strikes down law against officials enriching themselves, raising concerns about a weakening of the country’s fight against endemic corruption and its ability to get more aid from the International Monetary Fund …read more Source: ABC...
Rick Gates Gave Mueller ‘New Evidence’ That May Be Favorable To Paul Manafort
A mysterious new issue has emerged in the D.C. case of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. A heavily redacted court filing unsealed in the case on Wednesday suggests that former Manafort associate Rick Gates revealed new evidence to the special counsel investigation that may help his convicted former boss in the sentencing phase of the...
Ukraine drops out of Eurovision after spat with singer
…read more Source: Toronto...
Ukrainian Court Strikes Down Anti-Corruption Law
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court has struck down a law against officials enriching themselves, a move that raises concern about the country’s fight against endemic corruption and about whether it can get further aid from the International Monetary Fund. The Ukrainian branch of Transparency International said Wednesday that the decision...
Ukraine Pulls Out Of Eurovision After Local Winner Rejects Conditions
Ukraine has announced it will not participate in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest amid a scandal in its national selection process. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
‘Crimea Must Be Returned To Ukraine,’ U.S. Tells Russia
The United States has reaffirmed that it will maintain sanctions on Russia until it returns control of Crimea to Ukraine, nearly five years after Moscow annexed the peninsula. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian court strikes down anti-corruption law
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court has struck down a law against officials enriching themselves, a move that raises concern about the country’s fight against endemic corruption and about whether it can get … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Ukraine court strikes down anti-corruption law
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court has struck down a law against officials enriching themselves, a move that raises concern about the country’s fight against endemic corruption and about whether it can get further aid from the International Monetary Fund. …read more Source: FOX...
Some Background on Michael Cohen
As we get ready for the questioning today I wanted to flag some early posts from early 2017 as I was looking into Michael Cohen’s background, his business history, ties to Russian emigres and Russian organized crime and his relationship with Trump himself. They hold up pretty well, though we of course know much more now. It’s All So...
Annals of Curious Defenses
In the first of what will certainly be many attacks today, Rudy Giuliani is out with a round of attacks on Michael Cohen. A central one is that Cohen was “connected to Russian organized crime” and that – relatedly – he got his money from his Ukrainian immigrant father-in-law Fima Shusterman. You’ve seen me writing for months about...
