Ukraine Officials Linked To Giuliani Pressure Campaign Are Getting The Boot Over Corruption

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks to the Organization of Iranian American Communities outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24, 2019. (Photo credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is taking his anti-corruption, pro-reform agenda seriously, with plans to boot more than 500 Ukrainian prosecutors from the governmental payroll by the end of the month.

And some of those prosecutors are directly tied to to President Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and his pressure campaign to get Ukraine to probe the Biden family, one of Trump’s top 2020 political rivals. According to the Washington Post, a prosecutor named Kostiantyn Kulyk will be among the officials pushed out this month. Kulyk is one of the key Ukrainian officials who aided Giuliani is his effort to churn out fabricated dirt on the Bidens. The prosecutor has denied he ever met with Giuliani, but his ex-associates say he wrote a seven-page memo that Kulyk’s boss later handed off to Giuliani, according to the Post.

Kulyk was fired because he did not provide officials with proof that he took an exam that’s now part of the prosecutor review process across the country.

According to the Post, Zelensky’s efforts to root out corruption in his own country may harm his relationship with Trump, who’s currently under impeachment inquiry in the House for an alleged effort to recruit Zelensky to probe his political rival.

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  1. According to the Post, Zelensky’s efforts to root out corruption in his own country may harm his relationship with Trump, who’s currently under impeachment inquiry in the House for an alleged effort to recruit Zelensky to probe his political rival.

    But… but… I thought rooting out corruption was all Trump wanted from Zelensky?

  2. Yup… Pretty telling that actually rooting out corruption is a negative for drump.

  3. It’s interesting why this prosecutor is getting the boot. He can’t prove he meets a standard of competency. In the US, we have such standards (bar exams, for example), which we do apply, for the most part. A person can’t just be appointed to be a prosecutor without having passed some sort of muster beyond being well connected. It will behoove us to maintain this system, albeit an imperfect one.

  4. Avatar for tsp tsp says:

    Giuliani corrupts everything he touches.

    GCEHT

  5. So weird that the corrupt are all linked to Ghoulie…

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