(11-16-2019, 05:24 PM)Rainy_D Wrote: https://www.oann.com/livingston-told-sta...-recalled/
According to FARA disclosures, Livingston's company lobbied in Washington on behalf of two Ukrainian clients in 2017 and 2018. Livingston in the video states that his reports about Yovanovitch were about 1-1/2 years ago, which would have been in 2017 or 2018, yet he claims that he wasn't lobbying the state department. In contrast to the testimony from state department officials, all of Livingston's complaints are anonymous. "He declined to identify those people or disclose whether they were present or former Ukrainian government officials. He also declined to discuss the substance of their complaints." (USA Today: Lobbyist says he wasn't lobbying when he tried to oust Ukrainian ambassador. Experts disagree)
Quote:If Livingston was working for Ukrainian clients he disclosed, "he should have reported those contacts ... no question about that," said Joseph Sandler, an expert on the law that governs U.S. lobbying for foreign clients. Sandler is a partner at the Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock law firm in Washington, D.C., and a former general counsel for the Democratic National Committee.
Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ.
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.
Vivekananda
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.
Vivekananda
