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Ranking member nunes and members of the committee. i'm david holmes and i'm a career foreign service officer. since august 2017 i have been a political counsellor in kiev, ukraine. while it is an honor to appear before you today, i want to make clear that i did not seek this opportunity to testify today. since you determined that i may have something of value to these proceedings, it is my position to tell you what i know. i hope that everyone who testifies will do so truthfully and accurately. when they do, the oversight role will have been reformed. that is my only goal to testify truthfully...

I think this just illustrates the point and the problem that we're dealing with here today. >> certainly. i was also struck by your testimony that you were also the target of false accusations during your time in the trump administration. you testified, mamerabout being accused as a mole in the white house. you testified about death threats at your home. >> that was in august 2017. >> i'm sorry you had to go through all of this, ma'am. you are not easily deterred, are you, dr. hill? >> i am not. >> thank you, both, for your service. >> thank the gentleman for yielding. my caution to both of yo...

This was supposed to be an investment in my business. i represented to d.g. that the money would be used for development of real estate in north dakota and that the amount would be repaid no later than august 2017. my representations to d.g. caused him to wire transfer $100,000 to my bank account. however, i did not invest the money from d.g., and i did not repay d.g. any of the money he paid me. furthermore from the $100,000 i received from d.g., i conducted a financial transaction. i transferred $1,000 to m.b., as alleged in count eight of the indictment. all of this occurred in violation of...

His plea agreement today in terms of what he has just admitted to prosecutors in exchange for what looks like it's going to be a more lenient federal sentence. see in this document that we just got tonight, united states of america plaintiff versus paul erickson, defendant, quote, defendant states the following facts are true and the parties agree that they establish a factual basis for the offense to which the defendant is pleading guilty. quote, my name is paul erickson. i am a resident of sioux falls, south dakota. i falsely represented to investors that i would use their money to purchase ...

To turn in panama. during that time holbert's wife divorced him while they both sat in separate panamanian jails. but cher's family finally got the news they had long waited for. in august 2017 william dathan holbert was found guilty of the robbery and homicide of five people. according to a tweet from the panama ministry of justice. he was sentenced to 47 years in prison. and the woman once known as jane cortez, she say sentenced to 26 years for her role in the crimes. for cher's sister judy, there are only good memories and appreciation for the big sister who followed her adventurous spirit ...