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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NPR: State Dept's Catherine Croft to testify today that during her time at NSC she got "multiple calls from lobbyist Robert Livingston, who told me that Ambassador Yovanovitch should be fired" and that he called her "Obama holdover...associated with George Soros."[/quote]

Why should anyone care about this? Who is Robert Livingston?[/quote]

You think Livingston was calling Croft out of the blue, on his dime? This isn't happening in a vacuum - Livingston was directed to do this, probably by Giuliani in his shadow operation.[/quote]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/trump-envoy-met-with-ukraine-leaders-ex-rival-year-before-call-in-impeachment-probe.html

[i]"One of the organizations that helped Tymoshenko get in touch with U.S. officials in the buildup to the Ukrainian election was an obscure limited liability company called Innovative Technology & Business Consulting. To arrange the meeting with Volker, they hired lobbyists out of The Livingston Group, a Washington lobbying firm that was founded by Robert Livingston, a Republican who resigned from Congress in 1998 after admitting to cheating on his wife.

"The meeting between Volker and Tymoshenko took place in December 2018, according to a schedule on a lobbying disclosure report. Livingston, along with his colleague Cathryn Kingsbury, accompanied the former prime minister.

"For those involved with setting up the meeting, there was skepticism as to how the pro-Tymoshenko group was being funded. There was also acknowledgment that she was trying to use her visits to the United States as a way to gain favorable attention from potential Western allies before the general election.

“She came here, and she was basically trying to get some favorable attention among U.S. leaders,” Livingston said in an interview. “You ever been on a campaign trail? You talk to everybody you can, and you hope to generate support,” he added.

"Livingston went on to define the meeting as “congenial” and, because he says the two spoke mainly in Ukrainian, he could not definitely say what specifically was discussed.

“I didn’t understand it, but I set it up,” he said.

Innovative Technology & Business Consulting was led by an associate of Tymoshenko’s, Sergei Krasnitsk. Livingston said he never received an explanation as to who was funding the firm.

“There were other people funding it. I asked on several occasions and never found out. We would’ve liked to have known,” he said. A contract signed in June of that year between Livingston and the company shows the firm was paid $50,000 each month. Livingston noted the LLC is no longer one of his firm’s clients.[/i][/quote]

Secretive LLCs obscure Ukrainian foreign influence operation funding
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/09/secretive-foreign-influence-money-trail/

[i]On May 7, 2018, a limited liability corporation named ITBC LLC was formed in the state of Maryland. Weeks later, using the name Innovative Technology and Business Consulting, the LLC had already inked a $50,000-per-month contract—including a six-figure payment upfront at the time of signing—to pay the Livingston Group, a lobbying firm run by former Congressman Bob Livingston (R-La.) for “government affairs representation and lobbying services before the federal government on promotional issues related to Ukraine and any other matters mutually agreed upon.”

The Livingston Group’s FARA registration paperwork primarily refers to the foreign principal’s name as “Innovative Technology and Business Consulting LLC,” but parts of their contract on file with the Justice Department refers to the entity as “International Technology and Business Consulting LLC” and Maryland business records simply refer to the entity by its initials, “ITBC LLC.”

ITBC LLC has no website under any of its currently known nom de plumes and Maryland’s business entity search engine lists the office address as a suite in Pikesville that houses other LLCs, law firms, and provides “serviced offices to rent.” The LLC’s resident agent is Sergei Krasnitsk, whose signature is also on the contract with Livingston Group in FARA records, according to FARA disclosures on file with the Department of Justice and made available through the Center for Responsive Politics’ Foreign Lobby Watch tool. Krasnitsk is also listed as an agent for another Maryland company called 4G Development which was incorporated in 2011.[/i][/quote]

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