Where’s The Money?

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One of the more unusual aspects of the money flowing to Ukraine under the guise of “supporting a democracy” that does not exist, is the fact that Congress has forbidden any oversight of where the money is spent.  Seymour Hersh has now come out claiming that Zelensky has embezzled some $400 million from the aid going to the country.

Corruption in Ukraine is a long time problem.  Ukraine has been known as one of the most corrupt governments in the world.  Just how many US politicians have benefitted their bottom lines through this corruption is unknown.

Of course, if you don’t know that Joe Biden’s son Hunter was the Board member of Burisma, the Ukrainian Oil and Gas firm, then you are living under a rock.  Let’s remember that this is the company involved in a graft/corruption investigation.  Joe Biden bragged about removing the prosecutor.

Hersh writes:

The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia.

It is unknown how much the Zalensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the decades-long American war there.

The issue of corruption was directly raised with Zelensky in a meeting last January in Kyiv with CIA Director William Burns. His message to the Ukrainian president, I was told by an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the meeting, was out of a 1950s mob movie.

The senior generals and government officialsin Kyiv were angry at what they saw as Zelensky’s greed, so Burns told the Ukrainian president because “he was taking a larger share of the skim money than was going to the generals.” 

Burns also presented Zelensky with a list of thirty-five generals and senior officials whose corruption was known to the CIA and others in the American government. Zelensky responded to the American pressure ten days later by publicly dismissing ten of the most ostentatious officials on the list and doing little else.

“The ten he got rid of were brazenly bragging about the money they had—driving around Kyiv in their new Mercedes,” the intelligence official told me.

Why no oversight of this money?  How much of this money is being recycled back to the families of connected people in Washington?