Politicians and their Families - Corrupt Ukrainian Sandbox https://drrichswier.com/2019/10/12/politicians-and-their-families-are-playing-in-the-corrupt-ukrainian-sandbox/ Dr Richard Sweir (LtCol Ret.) bio  https://drrichswier.com/about-dr-rich-swier/ Politicians and their Families are Playing in the Corrupt Ukrainian Sandbox  (Oct 12, 2019) What is so diabolical with the entire House impeachment promotion is that the Ukraine actually re-opened the Biden-Burisma probe before President Trump called Zelensky.  But the corrupt dysfunctional CIA coup to take out a President is typical of the intelligence community; one need only look at what was done to General Michael Flynn. Corruption is the middle name in politics, but now a new duplicity has taken over our political system, and it is most lucrative. Incidences of nepotism involving high powered politicos seems to be fairly common and it results in millions or even billions for their family members. It’s not just Joe Biden’s son Hunter, or John Kerry’s step-son Chris Heinz who have made millions via their father’s political influence.  It’s also Speaker Pelosi’s son, Paul Pelosi, Jr.  He is involved in oil importing from Ukraine and he even used his mom to promote his business. DNC Solicited Dirt from Ukraine The House Minority Leader’s son’s work there is curious, given the Democrats’ attempts to collaborate with Ukraine to attack Donald Trump. In its most detailed account yet, the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington says a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider during the 2016 election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and even tried to enlist the country’s president to help.  Although she’s no longer with the DNC, she was paid $70,000 as a consultant for the party during the 2016 presidential cycle. She was paid $412,000 between 2004 and 2016. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley pointed to a report published by Politico in January 2017, laying out DNC official Alexandra Chalupa’s collaboration with Ukrainian politicians to compile research on Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman.  The Ukrainian Ambassador explained, “All ideas floated by Alexandra were related to approaching a Member of Congress with a purpose to initiate hearings on Paul Manafort or letting an investigative journalist ask President Poroshenko a question about Mr. Manafort during his public talk in Washington, D.C.”  The Embassy representatives unambiguously refused to get involved in any way. All of this was done to destroy President Trump and those who support him.  The left’s desire to impeach our President is a total set-up, and we know it.  The original Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA) was changed a week before the whistleblower made his claim to include “hearsay.”  Now, former CIA Director John Brennan is telling more whistleblowers to come forward. Pelosi Jr. and Ukraine In July 2017, Paul Pelosi Jr. travelled to Kiev, Ukraine as executive director of the Corporate Governance Initiative (CGI). He reportedly accepted the position about five months before he took the trip to Ukraine. Pelosi Jr. said he was in the country talking about, “certain investment banker things related to soccer.”  CGI prioritizes political and social goals as well as profit, revising a longstanding principle that corporations primarily exist to serve the interests of their shareholders. Like Hunter Biden, Paul has an energy company with dealings in Ukraine.  His group of companies, Viscoil, is under investigation for securities fraud.  He is also an executive at Viscoil’s related environmental design company, NRG Lab and Research.  It appears as though the public management of the company, which included Paul Pelosi, Jr. as President and Chief Operating Officer, was actually a Potemkin arrangement (meaning something that is fraudulent or counterfeit) that hid the fact that the company was actually controlled by a pair of convicted felons. Viscoil was one of many that popped up (in 2010) to tap into the Obama Administrations’ redistribution of billions into new energy technology. Scores of connected insiders took advantage of the influx of tax dollars that were wasted on such epic failures as Solyndra. Nancy and her son appeared in a promotional video in 2013 for the energy company doing business in the Ukraine.  The video resurfaced on Thursday, October 3, 2019, and was brought to public attention by journalist Patrick Howley. Junior was also the president and chief operating officer of Natural Blue Resources Inc., an investment company he co-founded that focused on “environmentally-friendly” ventures.  In the summer of 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged four individuals with fraud, including former New Mexico Gov. Toney Anaya and suspended trading in the company’s stock.  The SEC learned that two convicted criminals were running the business.  Pelosi owned over 10 million shares in the company in 2009. The SEC said the company was “secretly controlled” by James E. Cohen and Joseph Corazzi, both of whom had previous fraud convictions. Corazzi violated federal securities laws and was barred from acting as an officer or director of a public company. Cohen was previously incarcerated for financial fraud. Pelosi Jr. and InfoUSA Like Hunter Biden’s Burisma Holdings board appointment at $83K per month, Pelosi Jr. was given jobs for which he had no qualifications.  InfoUSA is a leading provider of data and data-driven marketing services for salespeople.  It was headed by Clinton backer Vinod Gupta and he put Paul Pelosi Jr. on the payroll in 2007 for $180K per year.  Junior has acknowledged taking trips on InfoUSA corporate jets. Investigators found that InfoUSA repeatedly rented marketing databases to unscrupulous persons who used the information to defraud the unsuspecting elderly.  Gupta is also under fire in a shareholder lawsuit alleging that he appropriated company funds for his personal use and political projects. Pelosi Jr. and Freedom Leaf, Inc. Freedom Leaf, Inc., (FRLF) the marijuana legalization company appointed Paul Pelosi Jr as Chairman of the Board in late 2017. Mr. Pelosi will guide FRLF in corporate governance, sustainable revenue generation, and investor relations. Freedom Leaf, Inc. will launch an Initiative to become the model for corporate governance in the cannabis and hemp sector. Hotel Squalor and Paul Jr. Squalor continues at ‘The Pit,’ the residential hotel where Paul Pelosi, Jr.’s involvement baffles San Francisco officials. The violations at 1312 Utah St., a tumbledown Mission District residential hotel, have been described as “egregious” by the Department of Building Inspection.  Last year around the Department of Building Inspection (DBI), heads were indeed turned when Paul Pelosi, Jr., the son of the Speaker of the House and recognizable from his New Year’s photos began dropping by DBI headquarters, establishing himself as a point person for the ever-troubled hotel. “Oh s**t,” one DBI official said last year, “it’s really him.”  Is he helping the owner to clean it up?  Doesn’t look like it. The acorn hasn’t fallen far from the tree.  Paul Pelosi Sr. owns 75% of Del Monte Corp’s stock. Del Monte is the parent company of StarKist and StarKist Tuna owns one of the two packing plants on American Samoa. Combined, both plants employ over 60% of the population paying less than $3.75 an hour in wages.  Interesting that when the minimum wage was raised in Congress, Nancy made sure it applied to all of the United States and its territories – save for the Pacific outpost of American Samoa. She’s done this many times, politically steering funds to organizations who benefit her husband’s business interests. There are many more players in the Ukrainian sandbox besides Hunter Biden, Chris Heinz and Paul Pelosi Jr. Adam Schiff As I mentioned in my previous article, in 2013 Ukrainian Igor Pasternak held two different fund raisers for Rep. Adam Schiff asking for contributions between $1,000 and $2,500.  Pelosi and Loretta Sanchez have also used Pasternak.  He is an arms dealer and has sold arms in places like Syria.  Even more interesting is the fact that in August of this year, and right after the CIA whistle blower filed his claim, Adam Schiff sent one of his staffers to the Ukraine. And The Gateway Pundit reported that “two aides for Adam Schiff worked with the anti-Trump CIA ‘whistleblower’ at the Trump White House.  It should be clear to everyone by now that this guy was not a ‘whistleblower’ complainant but a planned, prepared and organized Democrat Party coup attempt.” Notice that the sponsor was Atlantic Council.  And look who else sits on the Atlantic Council; it’s the sister of Alexandria Chalupa, unregistered foreign agent employed by the DNC as a “consultant,” whose entire family is tied to Ukraine Intelligence.  She works with and for Ukrainian Intelligence through the Atlantic Council, the very sponsor of the Schiff staffer’s trip to the Ukraine. One of the senior fellows of the Atlantic Council is CrowdStrike founder Dmitri Alperovitch. CrowdStrike is the company that supposedly concluded the Russians were behind the hack of the DNC in 2016 during the campaign. The FBI never had access to the server. Trump asked about CrowdStrike on the call with the Ukrainian president. Several prominent names are among the folks who fund the Atlantic Council. One is George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. Another is Burisma Holdings, the company which appointed Hunter Biden to its board. The Council is also funded by Google, Inc., Rockefeller Fund, US State Department, NATO, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukrainian Oligarch Victor Pinchuk. Who else is on the Atlantic Council? Evelyn Farkas – who slipped up during an MSNBC interview with Mika Brzezinski and disclosed that the Obama administration had been spying on the Trump campaign. (continued in comments)