Ken Vogel
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first heard Oct 2025
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There's question about whether he was actually investigating Burisma or whether he was just using the threat of an investigation to essentially elicit bribes from Burisma.
I can say based on my reporting- Right, he actually may have been corrupt.
Yeah, I mean, and, you know, big surprise that someone in the Ukrainian government would be would be corrupt.
But either way, Burisma was happy when he was fired with under pressure from Joe Biden because they thought correctly that they would be able to deal in a more open, transparent way with his successor.
And in fact, they were able initially to do so.
And they ended up getting what they wanted, which is the dropping of these cases by the by the subsequent prosecutor.
Well, yeah, they are a Democratic consulting firm.
They worked in the Clinton administration, actually, at the same time that Hunter Biden worked in the Clinton administration and the Commerce Department.
And they set up this firm that.
essentially worked with international interests, oftentimes that were sort of being targeted by prosecutors in their own countries or sometimes international prosecutors and sometimes by the U.S.
And that's what happened here with Burisma.
They were brought in by
one of Hunter's partners with assistance from Hunter Biden.
He was involved in the recruitment of Blue Star and the signing of that deal between Burisma and Blue Star.
And what they did was both on the PR front, trying to essentially cleanse Zolchevsky's reputation, but they also, importantly, reached out to their contacts in the U.S.
government during the Obama-Biden administration to try to get them to back off
of Zolchevsky and back off of US support for this prosecution.
Now, that would seem to be the kind of thing that would trigger a requirement to register under this Foreign Agents Registration Act as a foreign lobbyist.
They did not do that in real time, despite questions from me and others in the press and Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson about why they hadn't done so.
Ultimately,
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