There is still more digging to do here about Ukraine stopping Cooperation With Mueller Investigation

[MelissaB]

Is there more? What do we not yet know? This article is from May.

Link to tweet

Ukraine, Seeking U.S. Missiles, Halted Cooperation With Mueller Investigation

May 2, 2018

KIEV, Ukraine — In the United States, Paul J. Manafort is facing prosecution on charges of money laundering and financial fraud stemming from his decade of work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.

But in Ukraine, where officials are wary of offending President Trump, four meandering cases that involve Mr. Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, have been effectively frozen by Ukraine’s chief prosecutor.

The cases are just too sensitive for a government deeply reliant on United States financial and military aid, and keenly aware of Mr. Trump’s distaste for the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into possible collusion between Russia and his campaign, some lawmakers say.

The decision to halt the investigations by an anticorruption prosecutor was handed down at a delicate moment for Ukraine, as the Trump administration was finalizing plans to sell the country sophisticated anti-tank missiles, called Javelins.

More: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/ukraine-mueller-manafort-missiles.html

I included the tweet above because I thought the OP deserved credit.

[MelissaB]

1. ... snip

One inquiry dealt with possible money laundering in a single $750,000 payment to Mr. Manafort from a Ukrainian shell company. The payment formed one part of the multimillion dollar transfers to Mr. Manafort from politicians in Ukraine that underpin indictments filed by Mr. Mueller in federal court in Washington and Virginia. Before the case was frozen, prosecutors had subpoenaed records from Ukrainian banks.

Another concerned a former chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament’s foreign relations committee, Vitaly Kalyuzhny, who had signed nine of 22 entries designated for Mr. Manafort in a secret ledger of political payoffs uncovered after the 2014 revolution. The ledger showed payouts totaling $12.5 million for Mr. Manafort.

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2. K and R......

[abqtommy]

3. At some point it's going to look like tRUMP et al are flooding the impeachment investigation

with criminal acts to keep investigators busy. We need to settle down and pick impeachment charges (that we have in great numbers already) instead of thinking there'll ever be an end to the criminality. I realize that impeachment strategy involves waiting for public opinion to reach higher levels in favor, but let's get it done. Let's also keep putting the word resignation in tRUMP's ear, it might take hold.