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On 30 April 2020, Geoffrey Berman announced a deferred prosecution agreement against Israel's largest bank Bank Hapoalim, for helping to hide assets in offshore accounts and helping to bribe FIFA officials (the body that controls international soccer).

There is important information missing in the stories on Bank Hapoalim...
I found absolutely no information on the American criminals that used Bank Hapoalim to evade taxes!

Here’s some more information on the bribes to FIFA officials by the Argentine company Full Play Group that won marketing rights for the 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2023 Copa Americas (South America’s soccer championship).
Full Play is controlled by Hugo Jinkis and his son Mariano, who were first indicted in 2015.

From 2010-14, Full Play made at least 53 bribe payments totalling more than $14 million to Louis Bedoya, Jose Luis Chiriboga, Esquivel and Figueredo: https://www.timesofisrael.com/bank-hapoa...x-evasion/


According to some Trump supporters, it’s great that Geoffrey Berman was fired because former U.S. attorney Bud Cummins contacted him about Lutsenko's allegations against Manafort and Biden in the Ukraine, but that Berman inexplicably didn’t investiaget further.
Cummins said about Lutsenko's claims: “At the time, I didn’t know a whole lot about Ukraine. I didn’t make any real attempt to vet this. I didn’t care, that wasn’t my job”.

Rudy Giuliani was also in contact with Bud Cummins about the allegations against Manafort and Biden in the Ukraine.
In January 2019, Giuliani interviewed Yuriy Lutsenko and Viktor Shokin, but instead of bringing this information to the FBI, Rudy leaked this information to the press (obviously Giuliani didn’t want this thoroughly investigated...).
Rudy explained:

I deliberately shared my stuff with media because I didn't want to give it to the FBI. The very best thing to do is to use the press.

In early 2018, before Cummins first heard about Lutsenko's claims, Lutsenko had launched a personal attack against the then US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, by a series of unsupported allegations against her.
Lutsenko even sought help from 2 Soviet-born “businessmen” who are close to Giuliani, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas (that were later prosecuted by Berman).

In 2016, Cummins served as chair of Donald Trump’s campaign in Arkansas, then as a Trump whip at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He went on to serve on the Trump administration transition team together with Geoffrey Berman.
Cummins refused to say if his actions were related to lobbying for any particular client. Bud Cummins has previously lobbied for former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/working-...d=67273198