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</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/23/political-hit-job-gops-biden-report-littered-with-debunked-claims-and-russian-disinformation/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Republican report</a>&nbsp;aimed at raising questions about the dealings of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden&nbsp;in Ukraine appears to have accidentally implicated former Energy Secretary&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/10/07/energy-secretary-rick-perry-denies-pressing-ukraine-on-energy-company-says-hes-not-resigning/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Rick Perry in an energy scheme in the foreign nation</a>, according to the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republicans led by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., released their&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/23/political-hit-job-gops-biden-report-littered-with-debunked-claims-and-russian-disinformation/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">much-hyped report</a>&nbsp;on Hunter Biden’s role at the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma on Wednesday. However, it found no evidence of actual wrongdoing and relied largely on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/hunter-biden-ukraine-report-republicans" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">debunked claims</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/gop-senators-anti-biden-report-420362" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">old statements</a>&nbsp;and narratives pushed as part of a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/23/political-hit-job-gops-biden-report-littered-with-debunked-claims-and-russian-disinformation/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Russian disinformation campaign</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But the report did find new evidence related to Perry’s actions in Ukraine while he served in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Amos Hochstein, a member of the supervisory board at the state-owned Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz, told lawmakers that&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Perry “inappropriately pressured the Ukrainian government” to place Texas oil executive Robert Bensh on the board of the company while officials at the Department of Energy pressured the government to sign a deal with a “private business entity connected to Mr. Bensh,” according to a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/1308861317076443136" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">letter Wyden</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;sent to Department of Energy Inspector General Teri Donaldson</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">perry also pressured the Ukrainian government to place one of his longtime campaign supporters,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> Michael Bleyzer,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> on the board during a trip to Ukraine for President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inauguration in 2019,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;<b>Wyden wrote.&nbsp;Bleyzer and his partner were later awarded a drilling contract in the country.</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“Mr. Bleyzer’s contract that he was awarded was despite the fact that he was not the highest bidder in the process,” Hochstein told lawmakers. “Other . . . bids were higher, and therefore, Ukraine chose a bid that paid itself less.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The heads of the state-owned Naftogaz conglomerate have since&nbsp;<a href="https://time.com/5750669/exclusive-lawsuit-raises-questions-about-rick-perrys-role-in-ukraine-energy-sector/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">filed a lawsuit</a>&nbsp;seeking to overturn the contract, arguing that the Ukrainian government acted “illegally and with bias” in agreeing to the deal, Wyden noted.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Witness testimony in this investigation has directly implicated former Secretary Rick Perry in alleged wrongdoing, and the department more broadly, in a scheme to undermine anti-corruption efforts that were implemented by Ukraine in partnership with the international community,” Wyden wrote.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Politico&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/05/rick-perry-ukraine-trump-030230" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reported last year</a>&nbsp;that Perry&nbsp;—&nbsp;who along with then-Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker were the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/11/19/even-the-republican-witnesses-make-donald-trump-look-like-a-depraved-criminal/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">“three amigos” who pushed a shadow foreign policy</a>&nbsp;in Ukraine&nbsp;—&nbsp;played an active role in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/01/17/lev-parnas-implicates-rick-perry-in-ukraine-scandal-as-he-clears-joe-biden-of-wrongdoing/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump administration’s pressure on Zelensky</a>, which ultimately led to the president’s impeachment.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ProPublica&nbsp;<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rick-perrys-ukrainian-dream" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reported earlier this month</a>&nbsp;that Perry repeatedly pushed deals that “were potentially worth billions of dollars to Perry’s friends and political donors” and could “stand to benefit” the secretary himself. Two of the deals, including one worth $20 billion, went to the Texas firm Energy Transfer. Perry served on the company’s board before and after his stint at the Energy Department and bought shares now worth about $800,000 three months after leaving his post, according to the report.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ethics experts told the outlet that Perry’s efforts were violations of federal regulations. His actions also caught the attention of federal prosecutors, though he is reportedly not the target of any investigations.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The interview with Hochstein was part of the Senate Republicans’ investigation into whether Hunter Biden’s position at Burisma affected U.S. foreign policy. The report asserted that his position was “problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine.” However, it&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/23/political-hit-job-gops-biden-report-littered-with-debunked-claims-and-russian-disinformation/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">did not include any new evidence</a>&nbsp;suggesting his role affected the Obama administration’s policy. It also&nbsp;acknowledged that “the extent to which Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board affected U.S. policy toward Ukraine is not clear.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-gop-report-calls-hunter-bidens-board-position-problematic-but-offers-few-specific-examples-it-changed-obama-administration-policy/2020/09/23/4b66d41e-fd44-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">said the probe pushed</a>&nbsp;“Russian disinformation.” He further described it as “an attempted political hit job facilitated by the State Department.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A Finance Committee aide told&nbsp;<a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/wyden-ronjohn-stumbled-upon-evidence-of-trump-corruption-in-ukraine-probe" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Talking Points Memo</a>&nbsp;that finding new evidence against the Trump administration “was certainly not Republicans’ goal.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“While Republicans’ Ukraine investigation showed Vice President Biden did nothing wrong,” the aide said, “it succeeded in implicating former Secretary Perry in a corrupt scheme to pressure the Ukrainian government to change the board of Naftogaz.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">trump inc pod? //</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/rick-perrys-ukrainian-dream-ex-energy-secretary-accidentally-lead-trump-into-impeachment-and-simultaneously-helped-his-friends-cash-in-on-a-big-gas-deal/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/rick-perrys-ukrainian-dream-ex-energy-secretary-accidentally-lead-trump-into-impeachment-and-simultaneously-helped-his-friends-cash-in-on-a-big-gas-deal/</a></span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">rick Perry came to Washington looking for a deal, and less than two months into his tenure as energy secretary, he found a hot prospect. It was April 19, 2017, and Perry, the former Texas governor, failed presidential candidate and contestant on “Dancing With the Stars,” was sitting in his office on Independence Avenue with two influential Ukrainians. “He said, ‘Look, I’m a new guy, I’m a deal-maker, I’m a Texan,’” recalls one of them, Yuriy Vitrenko, then Ukraine’s chief energy negotiator. “We’re ready to do deals,” he remembers Perry saying.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The deals they discussed that day became central to Ukraine’s complex relationship with the Trump administration, a relationship that culminated in December with the House vote to impeach President Donald Trump. Perry was a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry last fall. He was among the officials, known as the “three amigos,” who ran a shadow foreign policy in Ukraine on Trump’s behalf. Their aim, according to the findings of the impeachment inquiry in the House, was to embarrass Trump’s main political rival, Joe Biden.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alongside this political mission, Perry and his staff at the Energy Department worked to advance energy deals that were potentially worth billions of dollars to Perry’s friends and political donors, a six-month investigation by reporters from Time, WNYC and ProPublica shows.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Two of these deals seemed set to benefit Energy Transfer, the Texas company on whose board Perry served immediately before and after his stint in Washington. The biggest was worth an estimated $20 billion, according to U.S. and Ukrainian energy executives involved in negotiating them.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">if this long-discussed deal succeeds, Perry himself could stand to benefit: In March, three months after leaving government, he owned&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Energy Transfer</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;shares currently worth around $800,000, according to his most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perry appears to have stayed on the right side of the law in pursuing the Ukraine ventures. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, or SDNY, questioned at least four people about the deals over the past year, according to five people who are familiar with the conversations and discussed them with our reporting team on the condition of anonymity. “As far back as last year, they were already interested in events that had taken place in Ukraine around Rick Perry,” including ­allegations that Perry “was trying to get deals for his buddies,” says one of the people who spoke to the Manhattan prosecutors.&nbsp;<b>Perry is not a target of their investigation</b>, according to two sources familiar with the probes.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But two ethics experts say Perry’s efforts were violations of federal regulations. Administration officials are not allowed to participate in matters directly relating to companies on whose board they have recently served. Other experts say Perry and his aides may have broken a federal rule that prohibits officials from advocating for companies that have not been vetted by the Commerce Department. “Even if it skirts the criminal statute, it’s still unethical,” says Richard Painter, the top ethics lawyer in the White House of President George W. Bush, with whom we shared our findings.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Through a spokesman, Perry said he “never connected or ­facilitated discussions” between Energy Transfer and Ukraine’s state energy firm in one of the deals we uncovered. The spokesman declined to comment on the other ventures Perry advanced while in government, including the $20 ­billion deal, or on the federal probe. In response to written questions for this article, Energy Transfer said, “We are not aware of any contact between Secretary Perry and Ukrainian officials on Energy Transfer’s behalf.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Our investigation shows how the hunt for energy profits in Ukraine mixed money and politics at the highest levels of the Trump administration.</b>&nbsp;Perry, in and out of office, advanced the business interests of his friends and political allies. The Ukrainians, in turn, sought to exploit Perry’s agenda to advance their national interests. Now the success of Perry’s deals may depend on the outcome of the November elections, according to Ukrainian officials involved in the negotiations. That means the presidential race will not only set the conduct of American foreign policy. It could also reshape billions of dollars’ worth of business deals whose fate is closely tied to who is in power.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This account is based on interviews with more than two dozen current and former government officials and energy ­executives in the U.S. and Ukraine. Our reporting team has pursued leads and sources in Miami, Houston, New York, Kyiv and Washington, D.C., and reviewed hundreds of pages of legal documents, lobbying records, corporate emails and internal government communications. Many of the details the team uncovered have not previously been reported, and together they reveal another side of the events that set the stage for the impeachment of the U.S. president.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Ukrainians were never naive in their overtures to the Trump team. They realized that Trump was a businessman. “We studied his psychological profile,” says Konstantin ­Eliseev, who advised Ukraine’s president on foreign policy when Trump took office in 2017. Their strategy, says Vitrenko, was “to lure or to seduce” the Trump administration by offering deals to its officials. “It was typical for Ukrainian politicians,” says the energy negotiator. “They thought that if they could, to some extent, corrupt the U.S. government, or get them interested commercially or personally, it would help.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Ukrainians desperately needed that help. Since 2014, they have been at war with Russia, and their country relies on U.S. support for its very survival. The first offer they dangled in that April 2017 meeting with Perry was indeed seductive: They were looking for a Western partner to take a 49% stake in the country’s gas ­pipeline network. “It’s a classic cash cow,” says Oleksandr Kharchenko, one of the Ukrainian energy experts involved in trying to sell a stake in the company. Its annual profits, he says, are close to $2 billion.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Ukrainians apparently got Perry’s attention. From the outset, Perry’s focus on Ukraine had puzzled his colleagues in government, who say that he took a personal interest in the country’s affairs. Those affairs would normally fall under the purview of the State Department, not the Energy Department. But at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, officials felt that Perry’s office had taken the lead on Ukraine policy. “Secretary Perry’s staff was very aggressive in terms of promoting an agenda and excluding embassy personnel from meetings without giving explanations,” David Holmes, a senior embassy official, said in a deposition to Congress during the impeachment inquiry last year.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Some of the voices driving that agenda were not members of the Energy Department but private businessmen, usually from Texas. The most visible was Michael Bleyzer, an old friend and political donor of Perry’s</b>. Known for his long mane of silver hair and a passion for scuba diving, Bleyzer was born in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and had immigrated to the U.S. in 1978. As Bleyzer explained in a series of emails and phone interviews, he shares an interest in photography with Perry, and they have taken trips together to shoot pictures in Colorado and Israel. “He considers me to be Mr. Ukraine,” says Bleyzer. “Whenever he had questions about Ukraine, he would turn to me.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So did the Energy Department. In July 2017, three months after Perry’s first Ukraine meeting, his staff invited Bleyzer to discuss Ukraine policy at their office in Washington, according to their internal emails. (The emails were released in February in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from American Oversight, a good-­governance watchdog.) Over the following year, Bleyzer became a steady presence at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, often requesting meetings with U.S. Ambassador Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch. “Bleyzer came to the embassy once a month,” says a person familiar with the meetings.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;The embassy staff were deeply concerned about the dual role Bleyzer appeared to be playing, both as a private businessman in search of oil and gas deals in Ukraine, and as an informal adviser to Perry. “We always tried to convince Masha not to take the meeting,” says a person familiar with these visits. <b>“But she said: ‘I can’t. He’s Perry’s buddy.’” (Yovanovitch </b>declined to comment for this article.)</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bleyzer also had contacts at Energy Transfer,</b>&nbsp;the company where Perry used to be a director. Its CEO, Kelcy Warren, gave $6 million to super PACs behind Perry’s 2016 presidential race. In mid-June 2018, Bleyzer organized a trip to Kyiv for one of the company’s executives. “I brought Energy Transfer to Ukraine,” Bleyzer says of that trip. Their interest, he says, had to do with Ukraine’s gas ­pipeline network, which the country had opened to foreign investment. It was the same deal the Ukrainians had pitched in Perry’s office a year earlier, in April 2017. “Bleyzer told me, when he came to visit me, that this [company] was blessed by Perry,” says one of the Ukrainian executives he met with. “The company was called Energy Transfer.” (Bleyzer denies saying this and says he “never discussed Energy Transfer with Perry.”)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two sides did not make an obvious match. Energy Transfer has never done a major deal outside of North America. But the investment in Ukraine was enticing. The country’s pipeline system is a reliable moneymaker, says Sergey Makogon, the head of the company that operates it. Russia pays more than a billion dollars a year to send its gas through Ukraine’s pipelines to Europe. If Energy Transfer invested in that pipeline system, it could get a share of those profits. Vitrenko, who later led the negotiations with Energy Transfer, says they discussed an American investment of as much as $3 billion.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During his time in the Trump administration, Perry had no formal ties to Energy Transfer. He had sold his shares in the company after Trump nominated him to his Cabinet and stepped down from its board. At his confirmation hearing before the Senate in January 2017, Perry said under oath that he had no conflicts of interest in leading the U.S. Energy Department. But during his tenure, the Energy Department worked to advance a deal between Ukraine and Energy Transfer, according to three of the Ukrainian negotiators involved. “They support this deal 100%,” says Kharchenko, one of the Ukrainian negotiators. The Energy Department says it did not encourage or advance these talks. The company says it never got enough information from the Ukrainians to determine the value of a potential investment.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But the pipeline system was hardly the biggest project Ukraine had to offer the Americans. Far more valuable was the prospect of selling American gas in Europe.&nbsp;</b>At the end of 2015, while Perry was serving on the company’s board, Energy Transfer received a federal permit to build a gas-­export terminal in Lake Charles, in southern Louisiana. A few months later, the company signed a deal with Shell, the Dutch energy giant, to jointly develop the terminal at an estimated cost of about $11 billion.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This new export venture had left one big question unanswered­: Where would Energy Transfer ship its gas? The global market for liquefied natural gas, or LNG, has plenty of suppliers, with shipments pouring out of Qatar, Australia and other major exporters. To make this project succeed, Energy Transfer needed a major buyer for its gas, ideally a buyer that would commit to a long-term supply deal. By 2019, an opportunity like that had emerged in Ukraine.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Perry wasn’t coy about his agenda in Ukraine. When he first visited Kyiv in November 2018, he told a gathering of businessmen about a complex way to get American gas to Europe. It would involve shipping the gas to Poland on giant tankers, then stashing it underground in Ukraine before selling it back, westward, into the European Union. “The potential for Ukraine is stunning,” Perry told the business roundtable. Soon after, officials at the Energy Department began to coin new terms for American LNG, calling it “<b>freedom gas” and “molecules of freedom</b>” as they sought to market it around the world.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the Obama administration also sought to undercut Russian energy influence by exporting American LNG to Europe, some of Perry’s colleagues in the Trump administration were surprised, and often frustrated, by the secretary’s focus on selling gas. “He was a fierce advocate for LNG exports around the globe,” said<b>&nbsp;Tom Pyle, who headed the Trump transition team at the Department of Energy. “But he failed to restart the nuclear-­waste program or initiate the much needed reforms at the agency, which are major disappointments</b>,” Pyle told the energy-focused publication E&E News.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perry ultimately went straight to the top in Ukraine with his energy ­evangelism — and his favored disciples. In May 2019, Trump sent him to Kyiv to attend the inauguration of Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky. During a meeting that day, Perry did something his handlers at the U.S. Embassy did not expect, despite their extensive planning for the talks. Perry handed a piece of paper to ­Zelensky and urged him to have a look. As he did so, Perry explained that the note contained a list of names of “people he trusts,” according to Holmes, the U.S. diplomat, who was the official note taker at the event.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Among the names on the list was Bleyzer, Perry’s old friend from Houston.</b>&nbsp;The following month, June 2019, Bleyzer finally got the deal he wanted in Ukraine. In an auction of licenses to drill for oil and gas, the choicest license went to Bleyzer’s company, which got the rights to develop some of Ukraine’s biggest oil and gas fields over the next 50 years. The deal was first reported by The Associated Press in November. It is potentially worth billions of dollars.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There was another name on Perry’s list, and it surprised the Ukrainians:<b>&nbsp;Robert Bensh.</b>&nbsp;A little-known oil and gas executive from Texas, Bensh had known Perry for only a few months by that point. Starting in the early 2000s, Bensh spent over a decade as one of the few American investors in Ukraine’s oil and gas sector. His contacts in Kyiv included close associates of Ukraine’s corrupt former President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in a revolution in 2014. After that revolution, Bensh’s business in Ukraine dried up, and he had returned to Houston. “I wanted nothing to do with Ukraine,” Bensh told our reporting team in a series of interviews.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Ukrainians soon understood at least one of the reasons for his return: Bensh was tied to Perry’s dream of exporting American gas to Ukraine. Along with a group of investors from Louisiana, Bensh was promoting a company called Louisiana Natural Gas Exports Inc., better known among its founders as LNGE. Established in June 2018, the company had no deals or assets to its name. The man listed as its co-founder and director,<b>&nbsp;Marsden Miller,</b>&nbsp;is related to Bensh by marriage. In 1987, a jury in Louisiana found Miller guilty of corruption; his sentence was later overturned, and the government dropped the case against him after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the relevant statute in an unrelated case. LNGE owns no gas fields, no pipelines, no tankers and no export terminal. But its executives had connections in Ukraine and at the Energy Department. On July 10, 2019, those connections began to bear fruit.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That date marked a turning point in Ukraine’s relations with the Trump administration. It was that afternoon in the White House that two officials from Kyiv were pressured to open investigations into Trump’s political rivals. National ­Security Adviser John Bolton memorably called the day’s events a “drug deal.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the Ukrainians had another date with the Trump administration that evening. After the unsettling interaction at the White House, the two had a dinner meeting in a restaurant near the White House with two top Perry aides. Also there: Robert Bensh. As he sat down at the table, Oleksandr Danyliuk, then the national security adviser to Ukraine’s president, remembers wondering why Bensh would be invited to a private dinner with senior government officials. “Smells like trouble,” Danyliuk remembers thinking.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The deal Bensh and his partners had in mind was very similar to the one Perry had raised during his first trip to Kyiv eight months earlier. To them, at least, it seemed like a win all around. Shipping U.S. gas via Poland to Ukraine and then reselling it in the European Union would “make money for LNGE,” Bensh explains. It could also make a lot of money for an American company like Energy Transfer that was looking for long-term buyers of gas from its export terminal. “To be able to build their terminals, they have to get orders,” says Bensh. And of course the deal would also fit with Perry’s agenda of selling American “freedom gas” to the world.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But from Ukraine’s point of view, the plan had some critical flaws. One was the cost of transport: shipping American gas to Europe is expensive. And if Ukrainians agreed to buy that gas, they might get stuck paying a premium for many years to come.</b>&nbsp;While prior governments in Kyiv had espoused the idea, the new administration there was skeptical. “It looks like it would be a big disaster,” says Danyliuk, the national security adviser. In any case, during that dinner near the White House, he was too preoccupied with the day’s “drug deal” to talk about any gas deals. Bensh could see it was the wrong time to push.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">But Perry continued to promote his vision for American natural gas exports. That same month, July 2019, he was among the U.S. officials urging Trump to hold a phone call with Ukraine’s new president. “The only reason I made the call was because Rick asked me to,” the president later told a group of Republican lawmakers, according to a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-blamed-rick-perry-call-ukraine-zelensky-8178447a-0374-4ac6-b321-a9454b0565d4.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">report in Axios</a>&nbsp;that cited three of them. “Something about an LNG plant,” Trump reportedly added. When the call took place on July 25, 2019, Trump urged the Ukrainian president to open investigations against the Biden family, famously asking Zelensky to “do us a favor.” A rough transcript of the call would become Exhibit A of the impeachment inquiry.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The rough transcript makes no mention of Perry’s gas agenda, but in the wake of the presidential shakedown, Perry pressed ahead.&nbsp;</b>For much of that summer, his staff had been preparing to sign an international energy agreement during a summit in Warsaw. The aim of the summit, which began at the end of August 2019, was to pave the way for U.S. companies to ship gas to Ukraine via Poland. LNGE was angling to become one of those U.S. companies, and Perry’s team had invited the company’s chief executive to attend. The company had even written up a preliminary offer to Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state energy firm.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perry and his staff were urging Ukraine to sign it, according to three energy executives close to the ongoing negotiations. “They basically said: ‘If you want us as friends, you’ve got to do this,’” one of them recalled. But the Ukrainians had bigger worries at the time. A few days before the summit, Politico had broken the news that the Trump administration had frozen a package of military aid to Ukraine later revealed to be worth $400 million. The Kyiv delegation was desperate to get the freeze lifted. “The biggest priority for me was the military aid,” says Danyliuk.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So he left it to Naftogaz, the state energy company, to consider the offer of a deal with LNGE. “We looked them up,” says Andrew Favorov, the Naftogaz executive who vetted the potential partner. A Google search led them to the past legal woes of Miller, LNGE’s co-founder and director. That was a red flag for the Ukrainians. Moreover, says Favorov, “The company has no real assets.” So Naftogaz advised its government not to pursue a gas deal with the Louisiana company.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Soon the deal faced another problem. Three weeks after the Warsaw summit, news broke that a whistle-blower had raised the alarm over Trump’s pressure campaign in Ukraine, and the White House released the rough transcript of Trump’s phone call with Zelensky. Amid all the public attention, the discussions of a U.S.-Ukraine gas deal went quiet, according to energy executives involved on both sides. With the impeachment investigation gaining steam, and his name emerging as a central player in the Ukraine saga, Perry announced in October that he would resign from the Energy Department at the end of the year.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The deal that Perry and his allies pursued for three years while he was in Washington didn’t die when he stepped down and returned to Texas. After Trump’s acquittal in the Senate on Feb. 5, Perry’s allies inside and outside of government ­revived the massive U.S. gas-export deal he had been ­advancing, and pushed forward</b>. In early March, representatives of LNGE met with Perry’s successor as energy secretary, Dan Brouillette, a veteran of Louisiana politics. “He told us they were still 100% behind the deal,” says one of the LNGE representatives who was at that meeting. The Energy Department denies it supported the deal. The meeting with LNGE “was purely introductory and informational,” says Shaylyn Hynes, a spokesperson for the department.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After that meeting, things in Ukraine began to move fast. On March 11, the Zelensky government issued a decree appointing Bensh to the board of Naftogaz. Two days later, Ukraine’s deputy energy minister announced that Ukraine had agreed to a major LNG deal with the Americans. The U.S. partner on the deal: Louisiana Natural Gas Exports.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The details were not disclosed, but the way the deal came about raised eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic. In the U.S., critics pointed out that the Energy Department’s apparent support for the deal appears to have violated federal rules that bar U.S. officials from advocating for U.S. companies that have not been vetted by the Commerce Department. LNGE never went through that vetting process, according to its executives. “The vetting process is there to identify conflicts of interest, previous improper dealings, anything that might reflect poorly on the U.S. government as a whole,” says Theo LeCompte, who was a deputy chief of staff at the Commerce Department during Barack Obama’s second term. ­Brouillette’s office confirmed that LNGE had not been vetted and denied that the department had advocated for the company.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On the Ukrainian side, things were even more curious: Ukraine had not invited any competition for the deal.</b>&nbsp;But even with the U.S. Energy Department’s apparent blessing, the deal still wasn’t a lock. Naftogaz executives were still refusing to partner with the Louisiana company. As an alternative partner on the Ukrainian side, Kyiv’s Energy Ministry proposed an obscure state entity called MGU, which holds the shares of Ukraine’s gas pipeline system.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But executives at that company also began to raise alarms, most notably the chairman of its supervisory board, ­Walter Boltz, a stately Austrian who had been brought in to help clean up the notoriously troubled Ukrainian gas industry. “Nobody wanted to tell the Americans, ‘OK, this is a silly idea, stop it,’” says Boltz of the Louisiana deal. “You need to keep your friends happy.” And the Ukrainians, he added, “might even be willing to pay a little bit more, I guess, to make Trump happy and keep the military aid flowing.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the end of May, the Energy Ministry had fired the skeptic Boltz and announced another preliminary agreement with the Louisiana company. In a 20-page document, known as a memorandum of intent, the two sides spelled out the rough terms of the deal. Ukraine would agree to take shipments of gas from Louisiana for the next 20 years, according to a copy obtained by our reporting team. The volumes involved were substantial­, amounting to 5.5 billion cubic meters per year, more than the annual gas consumption of Slovakia, an EU member that ­borders Ukraine. Executives at the Louisiana company say they projected the total sales from the deal to be around $20 billion, or roughly a billion dollars per year over two decades.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Still, the agreement left one crucial question unanswered: Where was the Louisiana company going to get all that gas? In June, LNGE turned to Energy Transfer. By that point, Perry had reclaimed his seat on the board of Energy Transfer and acquired its stock. Once the Louisiana executives had their preliminary deal with Ukraine, they went to Energy Transfer in search of a gas terminal, says Miller, the co-founder of LNGE. In a statement, Energy Transfer played down these discussions, saying they amounted to “one introductory conference call” that did not go any further, and Miller insists they did not talk about a partnership in Ukraine at the time. Other executives at LNGE say it was just one step toward completing the $20 billion deal. “First we had to finalize the deal in Ukraine,” one of them says. “Then we get the gas.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was at this final stage in the negotiations that the deal ran into major trouble. The Ukrainians began to stall. According to one official involved in Ukraine’s deliberations about the deal, the reason for the delay was in large part political. By then, the COVID-19 pandemic was raging, and Trump’s approval ratings had gone into sharp decline amid his chaotic handling of the outbreak. His chances of winning reelection began to look less and less likely.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For the Ukrainians, that changed the political equation behind the deal. “If Biden is elected, I’d say Biden’s [team] would be pretty curious, to say the least,” about how the deal with LNGE came together, says the official involved in Ukraine’s deliberations. “In terms of relationships, that would be very damaging,” adds the official. “Given the latest [poll] numbers, that’s simply a stupid thing to do,” he says.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perry’s allies found themselves getting the cold shoulder. Six months after the Zelensky government named Bensh to the board of Naftogaz, he has yet to officially take up that post. Bleyzer, Perry’s friend from Texas, hasn’t fared much better. Soon after he won the licenses to develop oil and gas fields in Ukraine in June 2019, Naftogaz challenged the awarding of those licenses in court. Ukraine’s government, which owns 100% of Naftogaz, has declined to interfere in the litigation, which has prevented Bleyzer’s oil and gas projects from getting off the ground.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As for Energy Transfer, during the heat of the impeachment investigation in October 2019, the Ukrainian Parliament decided that selling the country’s gas pipelines wasn’t such a great idea, and it voted to ban foreign ownership of those pipelines</b>. The global collapse in gas prices during the COVID-19 pandemic, meanwhile, hit Energy Transfer hard. Its plans to build an LNG-export terminal in Louisiana took a blow at the end of March 2020, when Shell, its 50-50 partner in the project, decided to pull out, citing adverse market conditions.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the executives in Louisiana are furious over the foot-dragging in Kyiv, and they put the blame on Naftogaz. In emails obtained by our reporting team, Miller, the director and co-founder of the Louisiana company, lashed out at Naftogaz for telling the government in Kyiv about Miller’s overturned conviction on corruption charges. “This is the guy who went to the U.S. Attorney for the SDNY?” Miller wrote indignantly to his colleagues, referring to Andriy ­Kobolyev, the Naftogaz CEO. Indeed, the U.S. attorney’s office for New York’s Southern District had contacted Kobolyev in the fall of 2019, and he says he agreed to speak to its investigators. Those investigators have since questioned at least three other people about Perry’s efforts to secure gas deals in Ukraine, according to the people familiar with what they told the investigators.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But earlier this year, prosecutors dropped that line of questioning, according to two people familiar with the questions they have posed since April. Noah Bookbinder, a former anti­-corruption prosecutor with whom we shared our findings, says U.S. laws make prosecuting conflicts of interest difficult. “Criminal conflicts of interest are not charged all that frequently, because they can be hard to prove,” he says. “It’s got a relatively modest sentence. So often prosecutors will look at that and say, ‘It’s a lot of hard work to prove that, and it’s not the biggest offense. So we’re not going to take the time to go down that path.’”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two years ago, some Democrats called for tighter restrictions on potential conflicts of interest, and they have pointed to Perry’s relationship with Energy Transfer to justify new legislation.&nbsp;<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/represent/members/W000817-elizabeth-warren" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Sen. Elizabeth Warren</a>&nbsp;introduced a bill in 2018, known as the Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act, that would ban corporations from hiring or paying former heads of agencies they have lobbied.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;In a letter to Perry and Energy Transfer last January, Warren urged Perry to resign from Energy Transfer’s board. “This is exactly the kind of unethical, revolving-­door corruption that has made Americans cynical and distrustful of the federal government,” Warren wrote. In a curt reply, the company told Warren it was “fully aware of our legal and ethical standards related to Secretary Perry rejoining our board.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So is the $20 billion deal dead? Not necessarily. The Ukrainians appear to be waiting to see which way the political winds turn in November. Should Trump win another term, some Ukrainians assume Perry’s deal might come back to life. “Wait three months, and then see what happens,” says the official involved in the deliberations in Kyiv. “This is obvious political stuff. You don’t have to be a genius to understand this logic.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But for all the Ukrainian efforts to seduce the Americans, some at least are disappointed with the entire process. They had hoped, on some level, that the U.S. agenda was still driven by a shared set of goals and values, like strengthening alliances and pushing back against the influence of Russia. But over time, says Vitrenko, the energy negotiator, it became clear that the overarching aims were simpler and, to the Ukrainians, more familiar. “It was about making deals,” he says. And making money.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>it&nbsp;appears that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/tag/rick-perry/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">Rick Perry</a>&nbsp;exported his pay-to-play politics from the Texas governor’s mansion to the notoriously corrupt&nbsp;</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ukrainian oil and gas sector, </b>where, as President Donald Trump’s energy secretary, he has played an outsized role in opening up the industry to private investors.</font><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Associated Press&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/6d8ae551fb884371a2a592ed85a74426" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">reported</a>&nbsp;on Monday, two of Perry’s longtime political patrons won what could be an immensely profitable drilling contract on a sprawling patch of land owned by the Ukrainian government.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Per the AP, Perry traveled to Ukraine to attend the inauguration of President Volodymyr Zelensky in May. During the trip, Perry urged Zelensky to appoint all new members to the advisory board of the country’s <b>massive state-owned natural gas company, Naftogaz,</b> helpfully giving him a list of recommended energy advisors. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the top was Michael Bleyzer, a silver-maned <b>Ukrainian</b>-American who has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/The-anti-Putin-Houstonian-tangled-in-the-Ukraine-14515890.php#" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">made a name for himself</a>&nbsp;in Houston as an eccentric oil and gas investor. He also happens to be a longtime benefactor of Perry’s political career.</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the meeting with Zelensky, the energy secretary emphasized his friendship with Bleyzer. A week later, Bleyzer and his business partner Alex Cranberg, also a longtime Perry backer, filed a bid to drill on a government-controlled plot. They were ultimately awarded the contract despite offering several million dollars less than the only other bidder.</font></p><section class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><aside class="pull-quote centered" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 60px; margin-top: 25px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The revelations that Perry engaged in what looks to be a classic example of political cronyism should be unsurprising to those familiar with Governor Goodhair’s tenure.</font></span></aside></section><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since 2017, Perry has played the role of international salesman for the American energy industry, particularly as an enthusiastic hawker of liquified natural gas, which he famously dubbed “freedom gas.” But as one of the Trump administration’s so-called “<a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/15/770482694/wh-replaced-pro-ukraine-staff-with-three-amigos-congress-reportedly-told" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">three amigos</a>” who have led the United States’ diplomatic efforts in Ukraine, Perry is now embroiled in the impeachment inquiry into the president. He refused to comply with House Democrats’ subpoenas for documents related to his meetings with the Ukraine president and has declined to testify before committee members leading the impeachment investigation. Reports of his donors’ receiving a lucrative drilling contract in Ukraine now only heightens the scrutiny on Perry.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The revelations that Perry engaged in what looks to be a classic example of political cronyism should be unsurprising to those familiar with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2011/08/the_5_funniest_things_molly_ivins_said_about_rick_perry/" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">Governor Goodhair</a>’s tenure.</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Over his 12 years running Texas, he developed a reputation as a brazen purveyor of pay-to-play politics, shamelessly installing his biggest political donors in powerful positions of public trust.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Of the 4,000 jobs that he filled during his gubernatorial career,&nbsp;<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rick-perry-fourth-political-appointments-campaign-donors/story?id=14324227" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">more than a quarter</a>&nbsp;of them went to political donors—many of them woefully unqualified. From 2001 to 2010, those appointees gave Perry&nbsp;<a href="http://info.tpj.org/reports/pdf/Perry%20Patronage2010.pdf" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">more than $17 million</a>, about 20 percent of his total haul, according to Texans for Public Justice.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In turn, those donors were treated kindly by the Perry government. In 2011, Texas billionaire <b>Harold Simmons, who had pumped $1.2 million into Perry’s coffers, got his radioactive waste dump permit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-08-31/perry-s-friends-in-texas-discover-donations-dovetail-with-state-contracts" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">greenlit</a>&nbsp;by Perry’s appointees on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality</b> despite objections from some staffers.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Perry also used massive economic development slush funds to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/us/politics/21donate.html" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">shovel money back</a>&nbsp;to his donors. In 2010, the&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Observer&nbsp;</i><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/slush-fun/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">found</a>&nbsp;that 20 of the 55 companies that received grant money from Perry’s Texas Enterprise Fund—a state warchest for corporate economic incentives—had contributed to either his campaign or the Republican Governors Association that he helmed. </span>Those companies had a combined $2.2 million in political contributions and received a windfall of $175 million in taxpayer-financed incentives. More than&nbsp;<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rick-perrys-energy-grants-in-texas" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">$16 million</a>&nbsp;from his new Emerging Technology Fund was given to Perry’s major donors. These programs have notoriously&nbsp;<a href="http://info.tpj.org/watchyourassets/enterprise4/ConJob.rpt.pr.pdf" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">little accountability</a>&nbsp;when it comes to job-creation metrics, often falling far short of original promises. One $30 million grant went to an energy group that&nbsp;<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/95448/rick-perry-texas-economic-development-funds" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">never existed</a>.</font></p><section class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><aside class="pull-quote centered" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 60px; margin-top: 25px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In hindsight, it was a small miracle that Perry made it this long without getting stuck in the swamp.</font></span></aside></section><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bleyzer and Cranberg—currently embroiled in Perry’s latest scandal—have deep ties to Texas and Perry. In 2009, then-Governor Perry appointed Bleyzer to the advisory board for the Emerging Technology Fund, his new tax-incentive fund for startup ventures. The following year, Bleyzer cut Perry’s campaign a $30,000 check.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Cranberg—an energy investor, longtime GOP mega-donor, and University of Texas at Austin graduate—was appointed to his alma mater’s board of regents by Perry in 2011.</b> That same year, Perry’s campaign paid $16,000 to Cranberg’s company for use of his private luxury jet. During his controversial tenure on the board of regents, Cranberg was seen as “the ringleader of a bloc of regents” who were influenced by outside interests that aimed to “stage an attack on academic research” and coordinate an ouster of UT’s president, the&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Texas Tribune&nbsp;</i><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2011/06/12/controversial-ut-regent-hopes-to-push-reset-button/" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">reported</a>&nbsp;in 2011. Perry’s former campaign manager Jeff Miller is now a lobbyist for Cranberg’s company and has visited Perry’s Energy Department at least a dozen times, according to the AP.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perry’s office said he is only doing his job as a booster for American energy interests. “What he did not do is advocate for the business interests of any one individual or company,” Shaylyn Hynes, the Energy Department press secretary, told the AP. Bleyzer and Cranberg also denied any wrongdoing.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In hindsight, it was a small miracle that Perry made it this long without getting stuck in the swamp. He was almost able to slip out the back door while he was still in good standing as a member of the federal civil servantry. Last month, just as the Ukraine heat was turning up, he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-perry-announces-resignation-effective-later-year" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">announced</a>&nbsp;that he was resigning in December.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 29px; padding: 0px; line-height: 34px; width: 700px; max-width: 700px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Helping two political pals secure a massive contract in Ukraine is another example of the pay-to-play approach that served Perry so well in Texas; this time, it’s at a global level. Perry has&nbsp;<a href="https://ua.usembassy.gov/remarks-by-secretary-perry/" target="blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 0, 0);">talked</a>&nbsp;about his aspirations for Ukraine to become “the Texas of Europe.” On the corporate cronyism front, he may just have succeeded.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Aide to former&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Texas</span>&nbsp;governor says he championed the U.S. energy industry ... A week later, Bleyzer and his partner Alex Cranberg submitted a&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">bid</span>&nbsp;to drill for ... a Republican mega-<span style="font-weight: bold;">donor</span>&nbsp;who provided&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Perry</span>&nbsp;the use of a luxury&nbsp;...</font></span></a></font></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFSgAMAJ6BAgEEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjACegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjACegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjACegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjACegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjACegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/report-rick-perry-pushed-to-install-texas-political-donor-on-board-of-ukraine-gas-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjACegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="S3Uucc">Report: Rick Perry pushed to install Texas political donor on ...</span></a></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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A week later, Bleyzer and his partner Alex Cranberg submitted a&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">bid</span>&nbsp;to drill for oil ... and Cranberg, a Republican mega-<span style="font-weight: bold;">donor</span>&nbsp;who provided&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Perry</span>&nbsp;the use of a ...&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Perry</span>, who served 14 years as the governor of&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Texas</span>, has publicly&nbsp;...</font></span></a></font></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAEQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFSgAMAR6BAgBEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAEegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAEegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAEegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAEegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAEegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469858-perry-backers-got-huge-ukraine-gas-deal-after-his-meeting-with-new&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAEegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="S3Uucc">Perry backers secured lucrative Ukraine gas deal after his ...</span></a></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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GOP&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">donor</span>, Bleyzer supported&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Perry's</span>&nbsp;unsuccessful 2012&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">bid</span>&nbsp;for the Republican presidential nomination. He is based in&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Perry's</span>&nbsp;home state of&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Texas</span>.</font></span></a></font></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAYQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFSgAMAV6BAgGEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAFegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAFegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAFegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAFegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAFegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-push-from-perry-backers-got-huge-gas-deal-in-ukraine/2019/11/11/9a6c1704-047f-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAFegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="S3Uucc">After push from Perry, backers got huge gas deal in Ukraine ...</span></a></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 bc" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.5;">https://www.washingtonpost.com › business › technology › 2019/11/11</cite></font></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">Nov 11, 2019 -&nbsp;</span>US Energy Secretary Rick&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Perry</span>&nbsp;influenced&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ukraine's</span>&nbsp;energy policy as its new ... A week later, Bleyzer and his partner Alex Cranberg submitted a&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">bid</span>&nbsp;to drill for ... and Cranberg, a Republican mega-<span style="font-weight: bold;">donor</span>&nbsp;who provided&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Perry</span>&nbsp;the use of a ...&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Perry</span>, who served 14 years as the governor of&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Texas</span>, has publicly&nbsp;...</font></span></font></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAoQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFSgAMAZ6BAgKEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAGegQIChAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAGegQIChAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAGegQIChAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAGegQIChAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAGegQIChAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/11/rick-perry-supporters-won-potentially-lucrative-ukraine-oil-and-gas-de/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAGegQIChAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="S3Uucc">Rick Perry supporters won "potentially lucrative" Ukraine oil ...</span></a></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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James Dannenbaum, a prolific Republican&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">donor</span>&nbsp;who served on the UT&nbsp;...</font></span></a></font></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFSgAMAd6BAgIEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAHegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAHegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAHegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAHegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAHegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry-exports-his-pay-to-play-politics-to-ukraine/&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAHegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="S3Uucc">Rick Perry Exports His Pay-to-Play Politics to Ukraine - The ...</span></a></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Reports of his&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">donors</span>' receiving a lucrative drilling contract in&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ukraine</span>&nbsp;now only&nbsp;...</font></span></a></font></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAkQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFSgAMAh6BAgJEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAIegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAIegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAIegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAIegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAIegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-ukraine-energy-contracts-military-aid_n_5dca11c5e4b02bf579452cab&ved=2ahUKEwi-6qmR24DmAhUOR6wKHfbaAB4QFjAIegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="S3Uucc">2 Rick Perry Cronies Won Ukraine Oil Deal While Nation ...</span></a></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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