Mykola Zlochevsky was the founder of Burisma. He was a corrupt, pro-Russian oligarch. Viktor Shokin was the Ukrainian prosecutor. Also corrupt and pro-Russian. The US Congress, as well as the EU and other entities across Europe wanted Ukraine to clean up the corrupt, pro-Russian scum if they wanted any help in defending themselves against Russia or any other assistance from the West. Shokin refused to investigate certain corrupt, pro-Russian oligarchs, including Zlochevsky. Then VP Joe Biden was tasked with telling the Ukrainians in no uncertain terms that they needed to get rid of Shokin if they wanted future help or money. Ukraine ultimately fired Shokin and began investigating many corrupt people, including Zlochevsky, who got the hell out of Ukraine. He was last seen in Monaco, and had purchased Cypriot citizenship.
I was a Jan. 6 juror. What I learned surprised me. Trump’s pardons of virtually all of the Jan. 6 rioters left me dejected. Am I safe? When the jury summons for federal criminal court arrived in my mailbox in November 2023, I knew I had to answer it. And not just because I had been deferring and deferring and now I was all out of deferments. I had to answer this one because in my gut I knew it wasn’t going to be just any old criminal case. I remember saying to my partner, “I bet you anything it’s a January 6 case.” Make sense of the latest news and debates with our daily newsletter At that point, it had been more than two years since a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in the city that has been my home for 16 years. But criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were still making their way through the federal court in D.C. at a pretty steady clip. At the time my summons arrived, roughly 1,200 Jan. 6 cases had already been adjudicated, and there were still many mor...
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