Tamera Stanton Luzzatto, the chief of staff to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and David J. Leiter, who was appointed to an Energy Department post in President Bill Clinton's administration, were married yesterday in New York. The bride's father, the Rev. Norman D. Stanton of Hartsdale, N.Y., a Presbyterian minister, performed the ceremony at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Sources on David Leiter, a lobbyist, having ties to Burisma: (No particular affiliation to any, selected with the understanding of various degrees of credibility, consistency and/or bias)
Hilton’s second claim — that a Kerry associate paid off Democratic senators to orchestrate the transfer of money to Burisma — is also unsubstantiated.
What’s true is that David Leiter, a lobbyist hired in 2014 by Burisma, served as Kerry’s chief of staff for seven years while Kerry was a senator for Massachusetts. Kerry spokesman Matt Summers said Leiter left the office in 1997, 16 years before Kerry became secretary of state.
Remember Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner? He had previously been a top fundraiser for John Kerry, who was Secretary of State at the time. And soon after Devon and Hunter joined the Burisma Board, the company channeled $90,000 to a lobbying firm called ML Strategies, which was headed by none other than David Leiter, John Kerry's former chief of staff.
That's handy because then-Secretary of State John Kerry himself has visited Ukraine with promises of U.S. aid and assistance. Well, Leiter registered as a Burisma lobbyist in mid-2014. But in the year leading up to that, he gave close to $60,000 to Democrats, including a select group of U.S. senators who would later be instrumental in pushing cash towards Ukraine's energy sector, directly in line with Burisma's interests.
According to a report from Time Magazine in July 2014 –
David Leiter, a former Senate chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry, signed on to work as a lobbyist for Burisma on May 20, 2014, about a week after Biden announced he was joining the company, according to lobbying disclosures filed this month.
Leiter’s involvement in the firm rounds out a power-packed team of politically-connected Americans that also includes a second new board member, Devon Archer, a Democratic bundler and former adviser to John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. Both Archer and Hunter Biden have worked as business partners with Kerry’s son-in-law, Christopher Heinz, the founding partner of Rosemont Capital, a private-equity company.
See it's easy to speak of their manipulation/monopolization of society, but it's translating that into legal terms in a system they largely control, which gets in the way of 'making them pay'. Every now and then we get a break sans busting Monsanto over RoundUp, but proving the larger collusion in a court that has the power to make a significant impact? That's the battle.
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argosciv ago
Worth adding some or all of these to the main post, Blacksmith21.
Source on Tamera Luzzato and David Leiter being married:
nytimes.com - (Sep 23 2001) "WEDDINGS; Tamera Luzzatto, David Leiter": https://archive.md/lqOrB
Sources on David Leiter, a lobbyist, having ties to Burisma: (No particular affiliation to any, selected with the understanding of various degrees of credibility, consistency and/or bias)
politifact.com - (Nov 11 2019) "No proof Biden or Kerry channeled U.S. aid for Ukraine to Burisma": https://archive.md/Pm8nd#selection-701.0-709.202
foxnews.com - (Oct 14 2019) "Steve Hilton: The real Ukraine scandal is US cash for gas -- It involves the Bidens and a growing list of Dems": https://archive.md/EDNbV#selection-1235.0-1239.425
thegatewaypundit.com - (Sep 25 2019) "They’re All Connected – The Biden Clan, John Kerry and Jim Comey’s Spies in the Trump White House": https://archive.md/g5MNX#selection-507.0-527.132
^ time.com - (Jul 8 2014) "Ukrainian Employer of Joe Biden’s Son Hires a D.C. Lobbyist": https://archive.md/JlRPl#selection-1471.0-1477.416
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Blacksmith21 ago
Wow. Just wow. It's time to burn down a farm in Lovettsville. Seriously, WTF? Everything is related.
argosciv ago
Yep, a few companies on that list are already all over my 'notes'.
Blacksmith21 ago
Think they will pay a price?
argosciv ago
Well, it depends what is found I guess.
See it's easy to speak of their manipulation/monopolization of society, but it's translating that into legal terms in a system they largely control, which gets in the way of 'making them pay'. Every now and then we get a break sans busting Monsanto over RoundUp, but proving the larger collusion in a court that has the power to make a significant impact? That's the battle.