Plagiarism disqualified her from joining the U.S. National Security Council, but a Fox News contributor just registered as a lobbyist for a Ukrainian billionaire.
A would-be Trump White House appointee who withdrew in the face of plagiarism allegations is now lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian oligarch who has recently advocated greater concessions to the Russian government, according to newly filed documents.
Monica Crowley told the Justice Department’s National Security Division that she will represent billionaire Victor Pinchuk in discussions with U.S. government officials “and other policy makers” regarding “issues of concern to Mr. Pinchuk.”
Crowley, a Fox News contributor, was in line for a senior post at the White House National Security Council until reports from CNN and Politico reported that she had plagiarized large portions of her 2012 book What the (Bleep) Just Happened and her Columbia University Ph.D. dissertation.
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She nevertheless withdrew from consideration for the post shortly after the allegations surfaced. Crowley will now be “providing outreach services on behalf of Mr. Victor Pinchuk,” according to a Friday filing with DOJ’s foreign agent registration office.
The man who would have been Crowley’s boss at the NSC, former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, also recently registered as a foreign agent, months after he went to work on behalf of a Turkish company linked to that country’s government.
Flynn resigned from his post atop the NSC last month after it was revealed that he had failed to disclose conversations during the 2016 presidential campaign with Russia’s ambassador regarding U.S. sanctions on Russia over the country’s annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea.
Crowley’s new gig comes as European critics of Russian aggression in Ukraine worry that Pinchuk is going soft. In a December column for the Wall Street Journal, he called on Ukrainian leaders to make additional concessions to Moscow.
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One other ridiculous detail in this Crowley story: Schoen's deal with Pinchuk makes him $40k PER MONTH. Must be nice https://t.co/r6CJk4Fytx
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 14, 2017
Doug Schoen statement on Monica Crowley, who is registering as agent for Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk https://t.co/HLPUwWmlft pic.twitter.com/IyhX0iVBqP
— Alex Pappas (@AlexPappas) March 14, 2017
Crowley registers as foreign agent for a Ukrainian billionaire that once gave $150,000 to the Trump foundation https://t.co/QiYWBw6Ci6 pic.twitter.com/ehi3i0ySeU
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 14, 2017
Huh. Pinchuk's father-in-law and the murder of the journalist Gongadze is a very interesting subject. And an infuriating one. https://t.co/ebnQVI4Kqy
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) March 14, 2017
Reminder👉Monica Crowley, fmr Trump admin accused of plagiarism & now a foreign agent for pro-Putin oligarch, once wrote this: #trumprussia pic.twitter.com/NckstnDw1i
— Em (@Em_Jay333) March 14, 2017
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