The Chief Federal Prosecutor in Manhatten had emailed now-fired Geoffrey Berman in the fall of 2018 about Biden’s alleged connections to Burisma in Ukraine. Apparently Ukrainian prosecutors had reached out to Berman’s NY office in October 2018. Despite multiple advisements, the attorney neglected to investigate the crimes at all.
Geoffrey Berman was apparently shocked this week when he was fired after refusing to retire. Attorney General Barr said in an interview that Berman would be leaving soon and Berman denied the comments – only to find himself fired a few hours later. The attorney serves at the pleasure of the White House and can be fired at any time under constitutional law.
Emailed allegations include that Joe Biden had ““exercised influence to protect Burisma Holdings” where his son Hunter Biden is a board member, along with business partner Devon Archer. The two had joined the Ukrainian gas company’s board of directors and earned substantial sums of money.
FBI reports bank documents prove that Biden and Archer’s firm accepted more than $3 million from Burisma in 4 years leading up for 2016. During the same time period Burisma was lobbying the US State Department and the US Embassy in Kiev to make corruption allegations go away. These details were exposed by State Memos that were released under FOIA rules.
The allegation by Prosecutor General Lutsenko et al is that the US ambassador, Marie L. Yovanovitch, Biden and Kerry made conclusions about who were the good guys and the bad guys in local government. They believe Biden and Kerry were influenced by payments to Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to influence certain decisions, particularly those benefitting Burisma,”
“The second allegation above is that the Embassy and FBI willfully pressured Ukrainian officials to falsify evidence to be leaked to the media about Manafort to affect the outcome of the 2016 election,”
Bud Cummins, former US Attorney
Now that evidence of the reports has been publicized, it will get far more difficult for the SDNY to explain why the allegations were never followed up. Berman’s callous exit and public spat with the Attorney General shows there’s some sensitivity to handling of cases that will now be looked at under a new light.
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