That weird NYT Biden-Ukraine story's co-author is now the new Ukrainian Presidents spokeswoman

The writer who co-reported a weird New York Times piece about former Vice President Joe Biden and the government of Ukraine has, surprise!, just been appointed spokesperson to Ukraines new president.

Wait, what?

Just one month after that New York Times piece in which Iuliia Mendel questioned Democratic presidential candidate Bidens efforts to oust a Ukrainian prosecutor, she gets a job with the countrys new president.

Here's the New York Times' statement:

NYT statement on Iuliia Mendel, one of the co-authors of last months big Biden/Ukraine story, becoming a spox for the president of Ukrainehttps://t.co/iABza9MeBW pic.twitter.com/dbIvrXoJnr

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) June 3, 2019

From Max Tani's piece in the Daily Beast about this foul-smelling affair:

[Iuliia Mendel]'s May 1 Times piece detailed how in 2016, then-Vice President Biden successfully pushed Ukraine to oust Viktor Shokin, the countrys top prosecutor whod been criticized by the U.S. as an impediment to corruption reform. The story suggested the possibility that Biden was motivated to push for Shokins removal because the prosecutor investigated the head of Burisma Holdings, a Ukranian energy company where the veeps son Hunter Biden was a board member.

The story noted that no evidence was found to corroborate the suggestion that Biden intervened to help his son. But Mendel and her colleagues noted how the alleged conflict-of-interest was being pushed by Rudy Giuliani, a top ally of and personal lawyer to President Trump who once claimed on TV that Biden bribed Ukrainian officials.

As a result, Mendels piece was widely criticized by Biden allies and other news outlets.