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"[font=Georgia,]after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko [/font][font=Georgia,]lost his reelection bid[/font][font=Georgia,] to Volodymyr Zelenskiy" "[size=large][font=Georgia,]the effort to install a friendlier management team at the helm of the gas company, Naftogaz, would soon be taken up with Ukraine's new president by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose slate of candidates included a fellow Texan who is one of Perry's past political donors."[/font][/font][/size]
[font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,]"[size=large][font=Georgia,]Ukraine, a resource-rich nation that sits on the geographic and symbolic border between Russia and the West, has long been plagued by corruption and government dysfunction, making it a magnet for foreign profiteers.[/font]
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[font=Georgia,]At the center of the Naftogaz plan, according to three individuals familiar with the details, were three such businessmen: two Soviet-born Florida real estate entrepreneurs, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, and an oil magnate from Boca Raton, Florida, named Harry Sargeant III.[/font]
[font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,]Parnas and Fruman have made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to Republicans, including $325,000 to a Trump-allied political action committee in 2018. This helped the relatively unknown entrepreneurs gain access to top levels of the Republican Party — including meetings with Trump at the White House and Mar-a-Lago."[/font][/font][/size][/font][/size]
[font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,]"[size=large][font=Georgia,]Sargeant, his wife and corporate entities tied to the family have donated at least $1.2 million to Republican campaigns and PACs over the last 20 years, including $100,000 in June to the Trump Victory Fund, according to federal and state campaign finance records. He has also served as finance chair of the Florida state GOP, and gave nearly $14,000 to Giuliani's failed 2008 presidential campaign."[/font][/font][/size][/font][/size][/font][/size]
[font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,]"[size=large][font=Georgia,]Giuliani refused to discuss the details of his business dealings, or whether he helped his associates in their push to forge gas sales contracts with the Ukrainian company. He did describe Sergeant as a friend and referred to Parnas and Fruman as his clients in a tweet in May."[/font][/font][/size][/font][/size][/font][/size][/font][/size]
[font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,]"[size=large][font=Georgia,]Ukraine, a resource-rich nation that sits on the geographic and symbolic border between Russia and the West, has long been plagued by corruption and government dysfunction, making it a magnet for foreign profiteers.[/font]
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[font=Georgia,]At the center of the Naftogaz plan, according to three individuals familiar with the details, were three such businessmen: two Soviet-born Florida real estate entrepreneurs, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, and an oil magnate from Boca Raton, Florida, named Harry Sargeant III.[/font]
[font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,]Parnas and Fruman have made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to Republicans, including $325,000 to a Trump-allied political action committee in 2018. This helped the relatively unknown entrepreneurs gain access to top levels of the Republican Party — including meetings with Trump at the White House and Mar-a-Lago."[/font][/font][/size][/font][/size]
[font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,]"[size=large][font=Georgia,]Sargeant, his wife and corporate entities tied to the family have donated at least $1.2 million to Republican campaigns and PACs over the last 20 years, including $100,000 in June to the Trump Victory Fund, according to federal and state campaign finance records. He has also served as finance chair of the Florida state GOP, and gave nearly $14,000 to Giuliani's failed 2008 presidential campaign."[/font][/font][/size][/font][/size][/font][/size]
[font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,][size=large][font=Georgia,]"[size=large][font=Georgia,]Giuliani refused to discuss the details of his business dealings, or whether he helped his associates in their push to forge gas sales contracts with the Ukrainian company. He did describe Sergeant as a friend and referred to Parnas and Fruman as his clients in a tweet in May."[/font][/font][/size][/font][/size][/font][/size][/font][/size]
