We just received 210 pages of records from the State Department showing that Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings.
During her November 2019 testimony in the impeachment proceedings, Yovanovitch told lawmakers that she knew little about Burisma.
We obtained the records in response to our FOIA lawsuit filed in January 2020 seeking records of communications from the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv mentioning Burisma (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No.
On October 4, 2017, Michael Polt, a former ambassador to Estonia and Serbia and who until October 2020 was Senior Director at the McCain Institute, emailed Yovanovitch regarding the McCain Institute's plan to conduct leadership development training for Ukrainian prosecutors that would be funded by Burisma.
The idea was suggested to Polt by Sally Painter, Burisma's lobbyist at Blue Star Strategies, and a Burisma executive.
Sally Painter of Blue Star Strategies, whom Kurt introduced to me and then stepped aside, together with Vadym Poharskyi of the Burisma Group have asked us whether we could provide a two-week Leadership Development and Professional Capacity Building program for Ukrainian public prosecutors proposed to us by the Ukrainian Chief Prosecutor.
It is widely believed that the owner was the beneficiary of the corrupt justice system here and I think -to the extent that anyone is aware that Burisma is funding the training -there would be raised eyebrows in Kyiv over the irony of Burisma training prosecutors and to what end.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/in-the-news/fitton-impeachment-burisma/
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