Briefing Memo Shows Democratic Lobbying Firm Met with U.S. Officials in Ukraine in February 2019, Discussed Burisma Holdings

Judicial Watch announced today that it received 116 pages of records from the State Department which includes a briefing checklist of a February 22, 2019, meeting in Kyiv between then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Sally Painter, co-founder and chief operating officer of Blue Star Strategies, a Democratic lobbying firm which was hired by Burisma Holdings to combat corruption allegations.

The briefing checklist notes that Painter also planned to meet with Foreign Commercial Service Officer Martin Claessens "Regarding the Burisma Group energy company." The records were obtained by Judicial Watch in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed in January 2020 seeking records of communications from the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv mentioning Burisma tweeted about 20-30 minutes ago: They knew, The entire time.

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" The email then cites a tweet in response to Giuliani's in which Bongino writes: "Joe Biden is going to have A LOT of explaining to do regarding Ukraine.

A LOT." "These new documents show anti-Trump State Department knew about the shady Biden-Burisma connections and were desperate to monitor conservative critics of Biden," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

" In a related case, also in September, Judicial Watch made public records it received from the U.S. Department of State that confirm Judicial Watch's prior reporting that the Ukraine Embassy under then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch monitored, in potential violation of law, Donald Trump, Jr. Rudy Giuliani, and major journalists on Twitter on their commentary on Ukraine, "Biden-Burisma 2020", and George Soros.

The search terms that were flagged to be monitored by State Department officials on social media included Yovanovitch, Ukraine Ambassador, Ukrainian Ambassador, Ukraine Soros, Clinton campaign, and Biden-Burisma The emails show that Yovanovitch was aware of the social media monitoring program.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/dem-lobbying-firm-ukraine/