Markk wrote:Honor,
For one thing, it is not only about Shokin and Kasko, it is about Hunter, Joe, and his family...the Ukraine, China and other places. Shokin, like Kasko, Mykola Zlochevsky, Yanukovych, Archer, Heinz, and a multitude of others are all players in this.
Your premise seems to be that somehow Shokin is dirty, so therefore Biden is clean...and somehow the Ukraine was not corrupt before his year in office, and somehow not corrupt after he was fired.
My premise is when looked at holistically you can figure out who was legitimately working to combat corruption and who wasn't.
Kasko and Shokin had a history of friction. Did you watch the video series in my OP and that I pasted links to on you tube? There are those that defend Kasko and accuse Shokin, and there are those that defend Shokin and accuse Kasko. Like Shokin, Kasko was accused of fraud, and like Shokin, had defenders state he was honest. We went over this in part earlier, and I tried to show tha their are two sides to every story, and why there is more than enough evidence for an investigation.
That's not what happened. Kasko was the person in the PGs office seeking to provide information to support the British in their case. He was undermined by leadership in that case, and Shokin essentially retaliated against him when he resigned as Deputy PG out of frustration that the PG office was not doing its job. He is now back in under the reforming administration of Zelensky. Shokin was basically in the pocket of Poroshenko. It's crazy to act like there are "two sides" here that deserve equal consideration. There are two sides, but one of them is legitimately proven to have been fighting corruption while the other was not.
Yes I read Moneyland and one thing that jumped out at me, in regards to it's short mention of Kasko and the 23 million, is that Kasko did indeed pressure the UK to freeze the monies, yet in the end Zlochevsky's attorneys convinced the UK to unfreeze the monies. That is Fact.
That's off. Kasko was helping the British with their case, not pressuring them. He was undermined by a letter sent to Zlochevzky's lawyers that was present to the judge from high ups at the PG office claiming no investigation was underway against Zlochevsky despite Kasko conducting one for the British. I don't know what you think this proves other than Kasko was working uphill. Like he was when Shokin took over as Prosecutor General as well which lead him to resign in protest of his inaction on cases including the one against Zlochevsky. THAT is fact.
This is important Honor...Hunter according to Burisma, headed up the legal affairs for Burisma, and as such, Hunter secured Blue Star, and former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Obama administration John Buretta, to help Peters and Peters, a British law firm, in the defense of Zlochevsky.
There is nothing in that which implicates Joe Biden as having engaged in corrupt activity. You're crazy with how you claim innuendo and assumptions are what is important that feed you bias, complain about others being driven by preconceived beliefs leading to ignoring facts, all while being exactly the participant you accuse others of being.
Anyway, that played out about how I thought it would. You don't know what's going on, can't see past the unfortunate bad optics of Hunter being hired by Burisma, and can't assess what actually matters when it comes to the nature of corruption in the Ukraine. I know, "LOL...something something TDS something whatever."