Section: The Daily Beast (USA)
Ukraine’s Funny New First Lady Is Dead Serious, Just Like Her Husband
Sergei Grits/APKIEV—Ukraine’s new first lady, Olena Zelenska, cracks jokes for a living. Until a week ago, she was a professional scriptwriter on her husband’s comedy show. Now it’s time to become, well, not only serious but “passionate about democracy,” she said in an interview with The Daily Beast. Millions of Ukrainian...
Ukraine Elects A Television Comic President By A Landslide
NurPhoto via GettyKIEV—Exit polls show a television comedian backed by a shadowy billionaire has won Ukraine’s presidential elections with a crushing majority that may ultimately be greater than 70 percent. This is no joke, as headline writers have been saying ever since the possibility of a victory by Volodomyr Zelenskiy over incumbent...
Feds Charge Greg Craig, Former Obama Lawyer Tied to Manafort Ukraine Report
Mark Wilson/GettyFederal prosecutors have charged President Obama’s former White House counsel with making false statements in connection with his role in disseminating a report commissioned by Paul Manafort. Prosecutors allege that as an attorney in private practice, Greg Craig lied to officials at the Foreign Agents Registration Act unit...
Manafort Crony Greg Craig Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight
Mark Wilson/GettyFormer White House counsel at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Billionaire Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Under Investigation by FBI
Valentyn Ogirenko/ReutersThe FBI is investigating Ihor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian oligarch who has sparred with the country’s current president, according to three people briefed on the probe. The investigators are scrutinizing potential financial crimes, including money laundering, according to the sources, who said the probe is wide-ranging...
The Comic Who Would Be President of Ukraine Really Could Win
Sergei Chuzavkov/GettyMOSCOW–Ukraine knows Volodymyr Zelensky for his political satire, sharp comic performances and a TV series, “Servant of the People,” where he plays the country’s president in preposterous situations. Yet the comedian-turned-politician seems to be growing more serious by the day. Last Sunday, Zelensky won big in the...
Beto O’Rourke Was Rare Vote Against Tough-on-Russia Bills After Invasion of Ukraine
Scott EisenIn the aftermath of Russia’s annexation of the at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Trump Knew Exactly What He Was Getting With Manafort—a Crook
Rick Wilking/ReutersThe 43-month sentence handed down Wednesday by Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C., finally brings Paul Manafort’s prison term more in line with what the public should expect for such a high-profile and unrepentant white-collar criminal, since it will begin after the 47-month sentence meted out to the former...
New York Charges Against Manafort Provide Intrigue on Sentencing Day
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyPaul Manafort’s at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Trump Knew Just What He Was Getting With Manafort: A Crook
Rick Wilking/ReutersThe 47-month sentence meted out to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort by Judge T.S. Ellis in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, last Thursday was little more than a slap on the wrist, considering the fact that Manafort is clearly the highest profile and most unrepentant white-collar criminal to be sentenced in...
