In the three years since Trump was elected president, Giuliani has had unique access to the White House as the president’s friend and unpaid lawyer. In Trump’s Washington and Kyiv, Giuliani became “the man to see,” in the parlance of political fixers around the world. “I will have Mr. Giuliani give you a call,” Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in their now-famous July 25 phone conversation. The Post this month identified two other countries — Qatar and Romania — where Giuliani’s private legal work seemed to intersect with government business. ​Bensh was an energy consultant who, through his company Cardinal Resources, invested in the Ukrainian energy sector.

Source: Washington Post December 16, 2019 20:26 UTC