Ken Vogel
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first heard Oct 2025
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essentially suggested that there is a potential charge for violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, interestingly, not connected to his work in Ukraine, but rather to his work in Romania for a different oligarch that they could bring.
They, of course, did not bring that, but they were sort of hinting at that, I think, probably to extract a guilty plea
But it's it's hard to ignore that when you look at the way that the pardon was framed.
It's hard to ignore that the prosecutors are suggesting that there might be a potential Farah charge and that the pardon was sort of chronologically situated to cover the activity that would be the basis for such a foreign agents registration.
Yeah, I mean, it was a very sophisticated reputation laundering campaign and sort of protection campaign where they were seeking to get out of trouble from Ukrainian prosecutors, as well as U.S.
Justice Department officials and State Department officials who were encouraging Ukrainian prosecutors and British prosecutors at one point.
to investigate Zolchevsky.
And what's most interesting, at least an interesting bit of context here, is what Zolchevsky was being charged with, or Zolchevsky's background.
He was a part of this authoritarian government in Ukraine before 2014 that was toppled by mass street protests and with the encouragement of the US government.
And Zolchevsky had been a minister in that government and ended up – he was a minister in the agency that oversaw gas and oil licensing.
And lo and behold, a company that he started was awarded all these very lucrative licenses.
And so he leaves the government and becomes a billionaire.
rather quickly as a result of being able to essentially privatize some of these state assets.
That is like a quintessential oligarchic corruption pattern of the sort that the US government and Joe Biden, both when he was vice president, before that as a senator, and then when he was president,
decried as anathema to democracy.
So, you know, they would have reason to be, they, Burisma, would have reason to be concerned that this would be something over which they would be targeted.
And in fact, they were, and Hunter Biden was,
in the middle of this campaign to get them out of trouble.
Now, on the prosecutor, there is, I think, still some debate about the reasoning for both the U.S.
wanting the prosecutor to be gone and Joe Biden pushing for it.
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