This post/summary is entirely stolen from reddit (
link):
Link to the indictment. Among various campaign finance charges, here is the bombshell:
One of these "officials" is almost certain to be Yuriy Lutsenko. According to NPR, Parnas was born in Ukraine,
is one of Rudy's "fixers", and was directly involved in pressuring both Ukrainian prosecutors involved in the conspiracy to
rat.... Biden:
This means SDNY has just arrested the bagman in the original quid pro quo with Yuriy Lutsenko to exchange Maria Yovanovitch's termination for investigations into Biden and 2016.
You might remember Maria Yovanovitch as the woman whom Trump said
"was going to go through some things" in his July call with Zelenskyy. Her firing by Donald Trump was the "quid" in the original quid pro quo conspiracy that Giuliani arranged in March 2019 with Ukraine's top prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko. Here is the run down:
- In March of 2019, Yovanovitch gives a speech
blasting the failure of Ukraine's anticorruption prosecutors, and advocated for the removal of Lutsenko.
- Two weeks later, Lutsenko
fabricated dirt on Yovanovitch and
laundered it through a conspiracy theorist/pretend journalist at the Hill named John Solomon.
- At the same time Giuliani forges a deal with Lutsenko: we will get Yovanovitch terminated (a firing Donald Trump
personally ordered), and in exchange Lutsenko
fabricates the investigations Giuliani requests to help Trump politically (again, laundered through conspiracy theorist Solomon).
- In April, The deal falls apart when Zelenskyy
wins a landslide election on an anti-corruption platform and fires Lutsenko.
- In May, Giuliani blasts the Lutsenko firing,
praising him as "a much more honest guy" than his predecessor Victor Shokin, who hilariously is the guy Biden helped get fired. Giuliani travels to Ukraine for the expressed purpose of
preserving the quid pro quo with Lutsenko's successor:
- But it doesn't work, and in July they decide that Trump himself needs to pressure Zelensky directly. In the July phone call, Trump
personally admonishes Zelenskyy for screwing up the Lutsenko deal:
The rest is history. Zelenskyy asks about military aid, Trump says
"I would like you do us a favor, though", and then directly asks Zelenskyy for the same investigations into Biden and the Black Ledger that they had originally extracted from Lutsenko in exchange for Yovanovitch's termination. Lutsenko himself, now with no hope of getting his job back,
readily admits the allegations of wrong doing by Hunter Biden were fabrications.
Now SDNY has arrested two men who appear to have done the legwork coordinating with Lutsenko.