“Two political supporters of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a potentially lucrative oil and gas exploration deal from the Ukrainian government soon after Perry proposed one of the men as an adviser to the country’s new president,” the AP reports. “Perry’s efforts to influence Ukraine’s energy policy came earlier this year, just as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s new government was seeking military aid from the United States to defend against Russian aggression and allies of President Trump were ramping up efforts to get the Ukrainians to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden.” Why no investigation calls by Trump?
Perry made clear during trips to Kyiv that he was close to Bleyzer, a Ukrainian-American investor and longtime Perry supporter who lives in Houston, and Cranberg, a Republican mega-donor who provided Perry the use of a luxury corporate jet during the energy secretary’s failed 2012 presidential bid. There will be crickets.
Swamp revealed: Rick Perry served on the board for a pipeline company before becoming Energy Secretary, awarded them "generous" contracts while in office, and then quit to rejoin their board, where he is paid handsomely.