from 21st Century Wire:
On September 28, the first hearings on the possible impeachment of President Joe Biden began in the U.S. House of Representatives. Two weeks prior that, announcing the launch of any formal investigation, then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy indicated that lawmakers had already gathered enough information that Biden had in fact lied to the American people when he claimed that he knew nothing about his family’s business dealings overseas.
Despite efforts by the mainstream media to bury and obfuscate this story, the inertia of the scandal seems to be unstoppable. With new evidence emerging every week, we are now witnessing the inescapable downfall of the seemingly omnipotent Biden family political dynasty. Still, any politician pursuing this case accusing the Bidens of high crimes and misdemeanors will invariably encounter obstacles along the way, including partisan attacks from the likes of Democrats on the House Oversight Committee head Jamie Raskin, or in the case of former President Donald Trump, accusations of election interference followed by impeachment charges of his own. Likewise, any journalists and media outlets who have tried to expose the story have been met with ambivalence from their cohort, or worse, shadowbanning and deplatforming by major social media platforms.
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The partisan retorts are well-known by now. “They don’t have a shred of evidence against President Biden for an impeachable offense,” exclaimed Raskin, who then offered to hear from several witnesses, one of whom was named American-Ukrainian businessman Lev Parnas.
For those who’ve followed the “Ukrainian track” of this investigation into the activities of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and the companies Burisma Holdings and Naftogaz of Ukraine, Democrats deferring to the likes of Lev Parnas or Igor Fruman, serves as nothing more than a way to divert attention from the torrent of new evidence of Biden corruption, as well as an attempt to discredit the sources of key information pertaining to this case.
Predictably, the liberal and beltway media snapped-up Raskin’s quote and quickly transformed it into an obligatory partisan soundbite. The deflection also helped to cloud the few journalists who’ve consistently showed evidence of influence peddling, shadow income, and the plethora of corrupt schemes run by the Biden family syndicate, many of which were published several years ago by Ukrainian politician and whistleblower Andriy Derkach, in cooperation with Trump’s personal attorney, former mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani.
Derkach is a former parliamentarian with over some 30 years experience in and around Ukrainian government, who held a number of key positions including in the presidential cabinet, and also at the director level of a state energy sector. Following the election of Petro Poroshenko in 2014, Derkach started taking a more active role in investigating and exposing government and corporate corruption.
A pitched battle is now set over which players will determine the balance of influence in determining the consensus narrative, and verdict, in the Biden corruption story. Will it be serial opportunist and political peddler Parnas, who may have just wanted to make money and did not fully calculate his role in the affair, or will the House of Representatives choose instead to hear from some of the individuals who were directly involved in this story as it unfolded in Ukraine, namely, Andriy Derkach, Oleksandr Dubinsky, Kostyantyn Kulik, or Viktor Shokin. Between them, there is a wellspring of information and knowledge of the Bidens’ illicit offshore activities in Ukraine.
Parnas and Fruman – Biden’s star witnesses
With the Biden Impeachment process already in motion, the stage is now set for another epic political drama in Washington. The Democrats have already begun assembling their cast of characters, and it’s a veritable rogues gallery.
In defense of the Bidens, two people have been elevated by the Democrat political and media establishment, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. Both are businessmen and natives of the former USSR, and were charged with federal election contribution fraud, and for making false statements and obstructing the Federal Election Commission investigation in 2019.
Their names were first presented to the general public by Ukrainian oligarch-corruptor Igor Kolomoisky: “There are two con artists operating in Ukraine who are under investigation in the United States… One seems to be Lev Parnas and the other is Igor Fruman. They are walking around Ukraine here, collecting money from people. They say they are close to Mr. Giuliani, and that they will solve any issue with Mr. Lutsenko (former Prosecutor General of Ukraine).”
IMAGE: Democrats banking on the testimony of Lev Parnas (Source: Reuters)
Parnas’s resumé is certainly colorful one. In 2015, a federal court ordered Parnas to repay more than $350,000 to his friend who had loaned Parnas the amount four years earlier as an investment to make a feature film. Parnas used the loan as part of a $500,000 investment, and had literally lured the investor into the project by organizing a meeting between the potential investor and actor Jack Nicholson at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City. But that money was never returned by Parnas.
The story revealed that Parnas turned out to be nothing more than a common fraudster with large debts, but who managed to parlay funds through various schemes, some of which would eventually be used for generous campaign contributions that bought him a seat at the table of Trump’s inner circle.
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