Hmmmm?
Ukraine related stuff just keeps spreading….
Two men who aided efforts by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden were arrested on campaign finance violation charges Wednesday.
Federal authorities arrested Florida businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, both of whom have donated to numerous Republican candidates and in 2018 gave $325,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC, America First Action.
The charges allege that the two men participated in a straw donor scheme to funnel money to political candidates. It doesn’t appear that the allegations are related to the controversy over Giuliani’s work in Ukraine.
Fruman and Parnas, U.S. citizens born in Ukraine, are expected to appear in federal court in Virginia Thursday. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan has been investigating both men.
Oh, look. Here’s the
posing with Rudy’s two partners, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who were just arrested on campaign finance violations.
Harry Litman
@harrylitman
To a prosecutor’s eye, this really looks increasingly like one big scheme, overseen by Trump and Giuliani, to obtain illegal assistance from Ukraine in the 2020 election.
I wonder why Barr let this happen against Rudy’s people?
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he would be ready to jointly open an investigation into any possible Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and into Burisma gas company, which had a son of Vice President Joe Biden on its board.
Zelenskiy said he had seen no evidence of Ukraine meddling in the election in the United States. He did not make clear who the joint investigation would be with.
The former U.S. vice president has denied using his influence in 2016 to prevent Ukraine from investigating his son’s involvement and has said he and his son have done nothing wrong.
Reporting by Matthias Williams, Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets, writing by Maria Tsvetkova; Editing by Alison Williams
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Trump goes into CYA mode on Rudy’s guys even as evidence his shown he’s up to his usual bending the truth….
President Trump said Thursday that he doesn’t know the two business associates of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who were arrested on campaign finance charges, but acknowledged he may have been photographed with them at some point.
“I don’t know those gentleman. Now it’s possible I have a picture with them because I have a picture with everybody,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House.
“I don’t know them, I don’t know about them, I don’t know what they do,” Trump added. “I don’t know, maybe they were clients of Rudy’s. You’d have to ask Rudy.”
A photograph of Trump smiling with Giuliani and the businessmen, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, has been published by various news sites….
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And there rascals where booking which forced the FBI to do the arrests ….
I wondered why Barr didn’t seek to deal with this….
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Federal prosecutors said two associates of President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani were attempting to leave the United States when they were arrested Wednesday evening on campaign finance violation charges.
The two men, Ukrainian-born businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arrested Wednesday night at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia with one-way international tickets, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York’s office said in a press conference Thursday afternoon…
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Can somebody tell me HOW Rudy Giuliani is actually helping his client Donald Trump????
Ouch?….
Follow the money….
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
@HC_Richardson
This is it, folks. Russian money has been funding certain GOP leaders.
It was always there for those willing to connect the dots.
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Laura Rozen
@lrozen
two $500,000 payments from Russian national in Sept & oct 2018 to funnel thru parnas and fruman in illegal donations to US pol entities