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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1185521)	12/15/2019 5:30:00 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572165

What pay for play scheme? Ones you invented in your Putinist fantasies? \ He even openly admitted that he did a quid pro quo with Ukraine to get the prosecutor to stop investigating the corruption of the firm his son was on the Board of. The truth is the exact opposite of that: Shokin was fired for NOT investigating corruption and Biden was only one person out of many who wanted him gone: Shokin was appointed Prosecutor General of Ukraine on 10 February 2015, replacing Vitaly Yarema. He was a controversial appointee due to his perceived role in blocking prosecutions against those accused of shooting demonstrators in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. As Prosecutor General, he was accused of blocking major cases against allies and influential figures and hindering the fight against corruption in Ukraine. .............. Through 2015 and early 2016, domestic and international pressure (including from the IMF, the EU, and the EBRD) built for Shokin to be removed from office. The Obama administration withheld $1 billion in loan guarantees to pressure the Ukrainian government to remove Shokin from office ......... Shokin wrote the affidavit in support of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash. John Herbst, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine during the George W. Bush administration, said that Shokin's support of Firtash, who had been arrested for bribery in 2014, undercuts Shokin's claims to be motivated by transparency. "Firtash is arguably the most odious, or one of the most odious oligarchs in Ukraine," according to Herbst.