(AP) Two Florida businessmen tied to President Donald Trump’s lawyer and the Ukraine impeachment investigation were charged Thursday with federal campaign finance violations. The charges relate to a $325,000 donation to a group supporting Trump’s reelection. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, associates of Rudy Giuliani, were arrested Wednesday trying to board an international flight with one-way tickets at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, according to Geoffrey ...
The U.S. military has custody of two British prisoners accused of playing a role in an Islamic State cell that tortured and killed Western hostages, including American journalist James Foley, U.S. officials said. El Shafee Elsheikh, 31, and Alexanda Kotey, 35, are two of four members of a British cell ISIS put in charge of Western hostages, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Their British accents ...
(Interfax) Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials. Derkach publicized documents which, as he said, "describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr." at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine's press center in Kyiv on Wednesday. "This was the transfer of Burisma Group's funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally ...
Appearing on NBC’s Today show, New York Times columnist James B. Stewart hawked his new book, Deep State, by hailing bureaucrats undermining the Trump administration as noble public servants “protecting the Constitution” and the American people from the President. He denounced any criticism of the “deep state” as “very dangerous.” “The disclosure of a second whistleblower with firsthand knowledge of President Trump’s phone call with the ...
The White House released a statement revealing the U.S. military will be pulling out of northern Syria so Turkey can move in to control the area. President Trump had a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier on Sunday to finalize the pullout. "Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria. The United States Armed Forces will not support ...
Rudy Giuliani: The witness I relied upon if you paid any attention to what I did last week is someone named Victor Shokin. That’s the affidavit I put out plus two others… Those three all say that Joe Biden pressured the president to fire Shokin because Shokin had just come upon a laundered $3 million transaction to Hunter Biden. And he was told by the Serbian ...
For months Senator Lindsey Graham, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, promised investigations on how the Mueller probe started. On Sunday Lindsey Graham joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures. Maria called out Lindsey Graham on his broken promises to the American people. Maria Bartiromo: “My viewers are frustrated. They want some subpoenas. They want to see you do that deep dive into what took ...
Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson stonewalled lawmakers during his Friday testimony to the House Intelligence Committee and refused to explain how or why the whistleblower form was changed.The ICIG secretly gutted the whistleblower complaint form in September to include second-hand knowledge and water cooler gossip to support allegations of misconduct.The ICIG then backdated the whistleblower rules and allowed the complaint form filled out by the ...
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam thought invoking a colonial-era emergency powers law to prohibit wearing masks in public might calm the increasingly violent protests that have rocked her city for more than four months now. But apparently, that was a miscalculation. Lam invoked the law Friday morning following a special meeting of the city’s executive council. “As the current situation has clearly given rise to ...
On October 3rd, 2019, President Lenín Moreno announced the enactment of Decree 883 which effectively ended decades of government fuel subsidies, causing the price of gasoline and diesel to jump sharply overnight. In a televised speech on Oct. 3, Moreno announced executive order 883 which “liberates the price of diesel and extra gasoline,” justifying his decision by saying that the Ecuadorean state allocates more than US$1.3 ...
