The trio has also been photographed together. Antony’s father Donald Blinken and his wife Vera funded the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Soros’ Central European University (CEU), which houses a digital collection of Hungarian historical documents. The East-West Management Institute is one of two Soros-spawned groups (the other being Central European University) that he says he “envisions as permanent institutions.” Fico was once engaged to Albanian socialist president Edi Rama, and later married Bledi Çuçi, one of Rama’s closest allies.Įvidently, Blinken can’t speak on behalf for anyone else at the State Department when it comes to their connections to Soros, or even his own father.
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The Institute is headed by a woman named Delina Fico who has the job title of Director of Civil Society.
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Responsible for providing the facts on Berisha’s alleged corruption to the Department of State is the East-West Management Institute. It’s the lack of response to those questions that promoted Zeldin’s latest letter.Īnd there sure are a lot of questions to answer.Īs I document in my forthcoming book on George Soros: Zeldin requested a written response and meeting with the appropriate State Department official to discuss in depth and review any new intel for the alleged corruption, and the process the Department used “that led to these sanctions eight years and two U.S. In August, Zeldin replied inquiring about how it is that sanctions are coming now despite Berisha leaving office in 2013 during the Obama-Biden administration. The State Department deflected in their initial (and only) response to Zeldin in June, basically arguing “we investigated ourselves and we did everything right,” writing “ Department can confirm it followed established procedures to determine he was involved in significant corruption at the time he was a public official,” but again, no evidence was provided.
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And of course, that was all a ruse, and this evidence still has yet to surface despite multiple requests. When pressed on the evidence for corruption, Blinken said that all proper protocols were followed while providing no evidence of corruption whatsoever.ĭuring questioning, Blinken calmly answered Zeldin while assuring him that he’d be able to provide the evidence for the alleged corruption after the hearing, but wouldn’t provide it there. In response to questioning, Blinken denied having any communication with Soros, but said he can’t speak for anyone else at the State Department. What specific information can you share with the committee at this time to justify this dramatic move?” asked Zeldin. Zeldin made reference to the Soros connection when initially questioning Blinken during that House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in June about the drastic sanctions that came “seemingly out of nowhere.” “He was also known to be an aggressive opponent of George Soros. It is unacceptable and suspicious that the Department of State has not sufficiently fulfilled this request for additional information in a timely manner and has instead chosen to slow-walk a Congressional request for transparency.ī reports: Rep. This is now my third request for additional information since raising the issue of sanctioning Sali Berisha with Secretary Blinken during the JHouse Foreign Affairs Committee hearing.Ĭongress plays an important oversight role for the executive branch including the Department of State, yet my office has received alarmingly few details in response to my inquiries.
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It’s been five months since I made my original request, which is substantially more than enough time to adequately respond. Regarding his inquiry for any information on the “significant corruption” Blinken alleged of Berisha, Zeldin wrote on November 24th: These numerous ties to Soros raised huge red flags when Blinken sanctioned Berisha earlier in May. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) has now requested facts from Secretary Blinken regarding State Department sanctions against former Albanian President and Prime Minister Sali Berisha.īerisha is a fierce opponent to Soros who has publicly traded blows with with him on numerous occasions.