2 Ukrainian prosecutors concoct wild conspiracy that Biden received $900,000

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In late January, then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko met with Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani and started feeding him conspiracy theories without any supporting evidence.

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Giuliani supplied notes of the Jan. 25-26 conversations with Lutsenko to the U.S. State Department, which turned them over to Congress. They also include an account of a Jan. 23 phone call with Lutsenko’s predecessor, Viktor Shokin.

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Much of what Lutsenko told Giuliani amounted to unsubstantiated claims debunked as groundless by officials of the U.S. and Ukrainian governments, journalists, anti-corruption activists and others.

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Even Lutsenko has since rescinded key allegations – including that he had evidence of crime by the Bidens. His reversals caused Giuliani to lash out at Lutsenko and accuse him of dishonesty.

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Shokin has surfaced giving testimony in an Austrian court in support of Ukrainian gas tycoon Dmytro Firtash, who is in a years-long fight to stop extradition to the U.S. on bribery charges that he denies.

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Daria Kaleniuk, executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, called Shokin’s affidavit “a lie” his explanation of the reasons for his dismissal as “nonsense.” Shokin was fired for sabotaging corruption cases.

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