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</font></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prosecutors say Giuliani associate got $1 million from Russia in September</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Cody Fenwick December 12, 2019</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Lev Parnas, the associate of Rudy Giuliani who has been indicted as part of an alleged campaign finance scheme, misled the government in his bail proceedings and hid the fact that he recently received $1 million from a Russian bank, prosecutors said Wednesday in a new court filing.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The prosecutors asked that Parnas have his bail revoked and that he enter the government’s custody, arguing that he poses a serious flight risk.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In addition to omitting the money he allegedly received from Russia, prosecutors said Parnas failed to reveal either the full payment amount he recently received from a law firm or the money he had in an escrow account, tied to a $4.5 million property he intended on buying.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They said with regard to the Russian funds, “While the majority of the money appears to have been used on personal expenses and to purchase a home … </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">some portion of that money existed in </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Account-1</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> at the time Parnas submitted his financial affidavit.”</span></b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his work with pretrial services, the document explained, Parnas has misled officials in other ways. It said that he falsely let pretrial services to believe that the court had allowed him to leave his home every day. The filing says that such action “confirms that even stringent conditions, of the sort he is currently under, are insufficient to secure his compliance with bail.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Nancy LeTourneau / <b>Washington Monthly </b>December 6, 2019</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">With the release of the report from the House Intelligence Committee on their impeachment hearings, Trump’s enablers are outraged that Representative Adam Schiff got access to the phone records of key players in Giuliani’s extortion scheme. According to Byron York, of particular concern is the fact that those records include telephone calls by John Solomon.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finally, the publication of John Solomon’s records raised still other issues, this time about freedom of the press. In the excitement over the Democratic report, there was little or no discussion about the problems that might arise from the House Intelligence Committee publishing a journalist’s phone records. But in the past, at least when President Trump was not involved, similar issues have been a concern of press advocates…</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Searching media coverage Tuesday and Wednesday, there was little or no discussion on whether Schiff’s disclosure touched on Solomon’s First Amendment rights. Solomon is the target of much criticism in mainstream reporting, but he is a journalist who should enjoy the same protections as others in his profession.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">York isn’t the only one complaining. The guy who smeared a U.S. ambassador with a mountain of lies in order to get her fired actually had the nerve to talk about a lack of decency.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The problem with claiming that someone like Solomon deserves the protections of the first amendment is that he wasn’t acting as a journalist. While he calls himself an “investigative journalist,” he’s not simply a conservative reporter as some would suggest. He’s been a political operative for years now.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>I first noticed stories by Solomon when I began tracking down the origin of the smears about the Clinton Foundation<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> He wrote volumes spreading those lies. As it turns out, one of his sources was Victoria Toensing, a pattern that has persisted to the current impeachment hearings about Ukraine. At the time, Toensing was representing an undercover FBI informant who claimed he could blow the whistle on Clinton corruption.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What we eventually learned is that the Justice Department determined that they had “serious credibility concerns” with Toensing’s client and that there were inconsistencies between his testimony and the documents they had obtained as part of their investigation.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>You might, however, notice a pattern here when I point out that, while Solomon was collaborating with Toensing, the same lies about the informant were being repeated by Trump on Twitter and by Representative Devin Nunes on Fox News. The cast of characters looks very familiar, doesn’t it?</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Solomon went on to write about the Trump-Russia investigation. He specifically focused in on the Steele dossier and often quoted anonymous sources that sounded an awful lot like members of the House Intelligence Committee.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since March, Solomon has been writing articles related to Giuliani’s Ukrainian racket – including smears against Ambassador Marie Yavanovitch, claims that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, and attacks on the Bidens. </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He admitted that </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Lev Parnas </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is the one who connected him to the source of much of his material—former Ukrainian prosecutor Yuri Lutsenko.</span></b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents shared with congress by the State Department inspector general give us an inside look at how these kinds of stories were coordinated.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Included in the roughly 50-page packet was an email from Solomon to Toensing, diGenova, and Parnas previewing an article he’d written that was not yet published…</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After that email became public, Solomon claimed he was simply fact-checking the piece before it was published. But Toensing, diGenova, and Parnas are not mentioned in the article, <b>raising the possibility that the trio, who had been working to find evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens in Ukraine, had been working directly with Solomon on the story.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In other words, Solomon was running the article by his handlers to get their input and/or approval prior to publication.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just as we saw with the efforts to smear the Clinton Foundation, the team of Toensing and diGenova would sign on as lawyers to represent people who had dirt on Trump’s opponents to sell, usually in exchange for favorable treatment by Trump’s Justice Department. Parnas or Toensing connected those people with Solomon, who wrote the stories that were spread by Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, and a whole host of right wing news outlets. <b>In the midst of all of that, Solomon was also a client of Toensing and diGenova.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is in that sense that I would challenge Solomon’s claims to be a journalist. Just like Giuliani, Toensing, diGenova, Parnas, and Nunes, he was working as a political operative on Trump’s behalf. Beyond the fact that he spread lies that benefited the most corrupt individual to ever serve as a U.S. president, he contributed to the undermining of journalism, which is equally disturbing. Any time a political operative disguises themselves as a journalist, it infects the entire culture with suspicions about who we can trust.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nancy LeTourneau is a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly. 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch: Eric Swalwell calls out Devin Nunes’ own ties to the Ukraine scandal to his face</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif, called out Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., on Thursday over his links to an indicted associate of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani who assisted with the effort to pressure Ukraine into launching investigations to help President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Swalwell cited a Daily Beast report that Giuliani business partner Lev Parnas helped Nunes arrange meetings in Europe while the former House Intelligence Committee chairman led an investigation seeking to undermine former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia at Thursday’s impeachment hearing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His comments came after Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council, hit out at Republicans on the committee who have pushed a conspiracy theory welcomed by Trump that Ukraine framed Russia in the 2016 election meddling case, which she said “clearly advance[d] Russian interests.”“Dr. Hill, you cautioned us on the dangers of members of this committee perhaps peddling any Ukrainian conspiracy theories that could benefit Russia,” Swalwell said. “I want to ask you if you’ve heard the name Lev Parnas, of Ukraine, someone in this investigation who was influencing President Trump and Rudy Giuliani about some of the debunked conspiracy theories you referenced,” he added, referring to a baseless George Soros-linked conspiracy theory that led to the ouster of former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Hill acknowledged that she had, Swalwell asked if she was aware that Parnas was indicted “for making foreign contributions to Republicans in U.S. elections.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I am aware of those reports, yes,” Hill replied.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Are you aware of yesterday’s Daily Beast story reporting the indicted Ukrainian Lev Parnas has been working with ranking member Devin Nunes on Mr. Nunes’ overseas investigations?” Swalwell asked, before entering the report into the official record.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Swalwell quoted from the piece, which said that Parnas “helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018… Nunes aide Derek Harvey participated in the meetings… which were arranged to help Nunes’ investigative work.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Swalwell then addressed Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., noting that Schiff had been “falsely accused throughout these proceedings by the ranking member as being a ‘fact witness.’”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Now, if this story is correct, the ranking member may have actually been projecting,” Swalwell said. “And, in fact, he may be the fact witness if he’s working with indicted individuals around our investigation.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The timeline in the Daily Beast report dovetailed with Nunes’ parallel investigation to the official House Russia probe, seeking to undermine the “origins” of the Mueller investigation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Parnas’ attorneys told The Daily Beast in response to the report that his client is “prepared to testify completely and accurately about his involvement in the President and Rudy Giuliani’s quid pro quo demands of Ukraine” and confirmed that Parnas assisted Nunes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Parnas attorney Joseph Bondy shared the report on Twitter and wrote that he hopes the House Intelligence Committee will “finally arrange to hear my client” and his “pivotal” testimony related to Trump, Giuliani, and the Republican Party, adding the hashtags “LetParnasTestify” and “LevIsKey.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bondy later added that Parnas has already “been producing materials” to the committee “pursuant to his prior subpoena” and offered “hard evidence” to investigators.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mr. Parnas’ speaking provided Rep. Swalwell the information that Nunes plainly should have disclosed,” he tweeted. “Let him meet with [the House Intelligence Committee].”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bondy did not deny on Twitter that Parnas was seeking leniency in his own criminal case in his bid to testify to impeachment investigators. He told The Daily Beast that Parnas fired former Trump attorney John Dowd and agreed to cooperate in the inquiry because Trump denied knowing him even though they met numerous times. Parnas’ attorneys and associates have placed him at the center of numerous key events in Trump’s pressure effort on Ukraine and said he is willing to testify to them under oath.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“President Trump’s recent and regrettable disavowal of Mr. Parnas,” the attorney said, “has caused him to rethink his involvement and the true reasons for his having been recruited to participate in the President’s activities.”</font></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 bc" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.5;">https://www.nytimes.com › 2019/11/04 › nyregion › lev-parnas-giuliani-ass...</cite></font></font></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">2 days ago - </span>An associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani who was involved in a campaign to pressure Ukraine into aiding President Trump’s political prospects has broken ranks, opening a dialogue with congressional impeachment investigators and accusing the president of falsely denying </font></span></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>lev and igor PAID RUDY $500K </b>, tho he spin as his employees thus covered by exec priv /aaty client priv?</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">rudy met w/ poro, nixed manafort prosecution?</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Heather Digby Parton / Salon October 4, 2019</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last weekend, for the first time, one of Donald Trump’s former insiders appeared on television and openly discussed the metastasizing Ukraine scandal in clear and concise terms. Former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert appeared on ABC’s “This Week”:</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s the one about former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and the “Black Ledger,” which forms one strand of the ludicrous “Ukraine framed Russia to help Hillary Clinton” 2016 collusion theory</span>. Manafort knows his way around Ukraine and Giuliani has reportedly been consulting with him in prison, where Manafort is serving time for various felonies he committed during his work there.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The “CrowdStrike scandal” mentioned by Bossert intersects with the “Black Ledger” theory.</span> This one holds that the security firm that first identified the Russians as being behind the Democratic National Committee hack was actually owned by a Ukrainian (it isn’t and never has been) and was in on the plot — as were the FBI and the DNC, <b>including murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich, who supposedly did the actual hacking as an “inside job.”</b> All of it is utter nonsense. (The New York Times’ Scott Shane did a nice report on how Trump got hooked on this stuff.)</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s also Attorney General William Barr’s “investigation of the investigation” which has him gallivanting all over the globe trying to prove that the CIA had it in for Trump and set up the bogus Russia investigation to trap him. This must also means that Robert Mueller was in on the scheme, since his team indicted a whole bunch of Russians.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As I said, Rudy Giuliani is at the center of all of these conspiracy theories, working under the influence of a couple of Ukrainian conmen in Florida with the full participation of his client, the president of the United States</b>. They are both wallowing in the right-wing fever swamps and it’s as fetid and poisonous as Chernobyl during the meltdown.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Of course, there is also the other big Ukraine scandal that has gotten Trump into such hot water: the alleged influence-peddling extravaganza around Joe and Hunter Biden.</b> As is his wont, Trump has blurted out a confession of wrongdoing, admitting that he asked the Ukrainian president to gather some dirt on his potential political rival as Trump was inexplicably holding up promised military aid. On Thursday, he said it again, adding that he thinks China should investigate the Bidens as well — in the same breath that he made new threats about the ongoing trade war. He just can’t quit self-impeaching.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later on Thursday evening, the House Intelligence Committee released transcripts of Trump’s Ukraine and EU ambassadors and envoys texting back and forth about Trump’s “crazy” quid pro quo, which makes clear that they were all aware of what was going on and were either trying to document their displeasure or cover the whole business up. They worked very hard to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to sign a statement saying his government was taking up the investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden. in exchange for a visit to the White House and the release of nearly $400 million in military aid. To his credit, Zelensky didn’t do it, perhaps understanding that he was dealing with people who were unreliable.[now is 10/4/19]</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Unlike all the other Ukraine scandals, this Biden conspiracy didn’t spring from the right-wing fever swamps, nor did Rudy Giuliani “uncover it” as he likes to brag he did. This one was a professional hit job carried out by the same team that brought you “Clinton Cash,” the book about the Clinton Foundation that formed the basis of the “Crooked Hillary” campaign.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This time it was a book called “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” by “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer, who is now an editor at Breitbart News and president of the Government Accountability Institute,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> a nonprofit he founded with Steve Bannon and right-wing billionaire Rebekah Mercer. Its purpose is clear enough: To launder far-right smears and dirty tricks.</span></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I wrote about this gang back in 2015 for Salon when Schweizer gulled the New York Times and the Washington Post into partnering with him on the Clinton story,</span> apparently convincing them that the man who wrote “Architects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Ruined the Global Economy and Will Do It Again if We Don’t Stop Them” was a straight journalist just looking for a little accountability. The book was a huge success at what it set out to do: Tar Hillary Clinton as a corrupt criminal. Why not do it again with Joe Biden, who everyone knew was likely to run against Trump in 2020?</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This time, with the notable exception of a couple of dubious stories in the New York Times, the media didn’t bite on the Biden story with quite the same eagerness. Bloomberg’s Joshua Green points out in this article on the subject that while it didn’t catch on in the mainstream press, it was huge in the conservative media, which apparently bothered Bannon a great deal. After all, the GAI was formed to push its smears into the mainstream. Stories that exist only in the conservative bubble simply don’t have the same power to move the broader electorate.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Green notes that because Trump mainlines conservative media, he saw the story as very beneficial to his cause, adding that “what differentiates Trump from other power-consumers of conservative media is that he’s the president and was willing to use his governmental powers to attack a political rival.” Indeed he was. And it was a big mistake — it finally got the Democrats off the dime on impeachment.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schweizer denies working with Giuliani or the White House. But then, he didn’t have to. He planted the seeds and then Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and the Trump and Rudy show made it grow. Green writes:</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[T]here’s no question the anti-Biden effort has boomeranged on Trump, who is suddenly under siege from the Democrats’ fast-moving impeachment inquiry. … At this point, no one can say what effect all this will have on the 2020 election. But it looks increasingly like it won’t be the one that Biden’s antagonists, from Trump to Schweizer, were aiming for.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s possible this will end up hurting Joe Biden, as these smears almost always do. But it’s hurting Trump even more. And to be honest, I’m not sure that Schweizer and company care that much. If a pain in the neck like Donald Trump gets caught in the crossfire I doubt they’ll lose any sleep over it. Political hitmen aren’t sentimental. They just move on to their next assignment.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heather Digby Parton, also known as “Digby,” is a contributing writer to Salon. She was the winner of the 2014 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.</font></font></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref 3</font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/giuliani-consulted-on-ukraine-with-imprisoned-paul-manafort-via-a-lawyer/2019/10/02/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/giuliani-consulted-on-ukraine-with-imprisoned-paul-manafort-via-a-lawyer/2019/10/02/</font></a></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>By Josh Dawsey ,</div><div>Tom Hamburger ,</div><div>Paul Sonne and</div><div>Rosalind S. Helderman October 2 at 8:41 PM</div><div>
</div><div>In his quest to rewrite the history of the 2016 election, President Trump’s personal attorney has turned to an unusual source of information: Trump’s imprisoned former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rudolph W. Giuliani in recent months has consulted several times with Manafort through the federal prisoner’s lawyer in pursuit of information about a disputed ledger that would bolster his theory that the real story of 2016 is not Russian interference to elect Trump, but Ukrainian efforts to support Hillary Clinton.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The relationship, which Giuliani acknowledged in an interview this week with The Washington Post, stems from a shared interest in a narrative that undermines the rationale for the special counsel investigation. That inquiry led to Manafort’s imprisonment on tax and financial fraud allegations related to his work in Kiev for the political party of former president Viktor Yanukovych.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>
</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Giuliani’s effort is gaining traction on Capitol Hill. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee</b>, have announced their renewal of an inquiry into any coordination between Ukraine and Democratic Party officials. </span></div><div>
</div><div>Manafort, who is serving a 7½ -year term in a federal prison in Pennsylvania, has continued to express support for Trump, and Trump has never ruled out giving him a pardon.</div><div>
</div><div>Trump’s push on a July 25 call to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the matter, and also probe former vice president Joe Biden, triggered an impeachment inquiry in the House. Many of the accusations Giuliani has been making about Ukraine recycle those that Manafort’s team first promulgated. </div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Giuliani joined Trump’s legal team in April 2018 to help defend the president against special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe, and the former mayor said he launched his own investigation into Ukraine late last year, which led him to consult with Manafort. He said he has not spoken directly to Manafort in two years.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“It was that I believed there was a lot of evidence that the [Democratic National Committee] and the Clinton campaign had a close connection to Ukrainian officials,” Giuliani said, noting that he was never advocating for a pardon of Manafort. “It was all about Trump. I don’t think I could exonerate Manafort.”</div><div>
</div><div>Manafort’s lawyer, Kevin Downing, did not respond to a request for comment. </div><div>
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</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Giuliani said his consultation with Manafort centered on trying to ascertain the veracity of a secret black ledger obtained by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which the New York Times revealed in an August 2016 story. The Times said the ledger recorded $12.7 million in cash payments from Yanukovych’s political party to Manafort. The revelation led Manafort to resign from the campaign.</span></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Giuliani’s narrative recasts Ukrainian accusations in 2016 against Manafort and efforts by Democratic operatives to gather research on Manafort after he took a leading role in Trump’s campaign as a conspiracy involving both Ukrainian and American officials to swing the election for Clinton. </b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As part of that, Giuliani has focused on a theory that Manafort’s team was promoting as early as 2017: that the Ukrainian government separately interfered in the 2016 campaign on behalf of Clinton through the activities of a Ukrainian American contract worker for the DNC, Alexandra Chalupa.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Chalupa confirmed she worked part-time as an outreach worker for the DNC to Ukrainian Americans and others, and met with Ukrainian officials from the embassy in Washington during that time. She said she “sounded the alarm” on Manafort outside her duties for the DNC, and sought to circulate that information, because she said she was concerned about Manafort’s ties to Yanukovych, who was backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. She said the Ukrainian Embassy stayed clear of U.S. election matters, even with regard to Manafort. </div><div>
</div><div>“The White House has been pushing this narrative to distract from Donald Trump’s gross abuse of power in pressuring a foreign country to interfere in our elections,” DNC press secretary Adrienne Watson said in a statement. </div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There were Ukrainian Americans and people in the Ukrainian anti-corruption movement who were motivated to “shine a light” on Manafort’s activities in Ukraine during 2016, and some Ukrainian Americans were active on behalf of Clinton, said Jeffrey Mankoff, deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, but he said those activities aren’t equivalent to Russia’s state-sponsored intervention, which included the release of stolen emails and an extensive online disinformation campaign.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“One theory has been documented with extensive detail in the Mueller Report,” Mankoff said. “The other is something that Rudy Giuliani and people in his orbit have conjured up as a way to cast aspersions and confuse the story.”</div><div>
</div><div>Giuliani said he needed to consult with Manafort through the latter’s lawyer this spring to ask whether a black ledger ever existed. </div><div>
</div><div><b>“I said, ‘Was there really a black book? If there wasn’t, I really need to know. Please tell him I’ve got to know,’” Giuliani recalled asking Manafort’s lawyer. “He came back and said there wasn’t a black book.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Giuliani said he was interested in the matter to prove his theory that the ledger’s release, which he has claimed was done in conjunction with U.S. officials, was part of a falsified pretext for U.S. authorities to reopen a case against Manafort. </div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>The FBI, however, already had a case open against Manafort before the 2016 campaign, having interviewed him twice about his work in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014. </b></div><div>
</div><div>The special counsel’s office did not introduce the “black ledger” at Manafort’s trial in Virginia in August 2018, nor did Manafort's defense team mention the document during his trial on tax and financial fraud charges, or try to show that it had been forged.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After a jury convicted Manafort of eight felonies, the former Trump campaign chairman pleaded guilty in Washington to avoid a second trial. As part of his plea, Manafort acknowledged that he made more than $60 million in Ukraine, laundering more than $30 million of it through foreign companies and bank accounts to hide it from the IRS and cheating the government out of $15 million in taxes. He also agreed that he had lobbied in the United States on behalf of Ukrainian officials without registering and that he conspired to tamper with witnesses in his case.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Serhiy Leshchenko, a Ukrainian journalist, anti-corruption campaigner and former member of parliament, said the ledger “was obtained by an anonymous source in the burned-out ruins of the headquarters of Yanukovych’s party.” His involvement in the release of part of its contents at a news conference, he said, was motivated by a desire that Manafort be brought to justice for his activities in Ukraine. </div><div>
</div><div>“Giuliani’s entire approach is built on disinformation and the manipulation of facts,” Leshchenko said in an op-ed in The Post. “Giuliani has developed a conspiracy theory in which he depicts my revelations about Manafort as an intervention in the 2016 U.S. election in favor of the Democratic Party.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a text conversation with Manafort from August 2017 released by prosecutors, <b>Fox News host Sean Hannity mentions “Ukraine interference”</b> as one of the issues he was highlighting to attack Mueller. On his show that year, Hannity repeatedly claimed Ukraine had intervened in the 2016 election by sharing information on Manafort with a DNC contractor. Manafort did not respond directly to those claims but frequently encouraged and praised Hannity throughout the summer. </span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The White House also promoted the allegation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“If you’re looking for an example of a campaign coordinating with a foreign country or a foreign source, look no further than the DNC, who actually coordinated opposition research with the Ukrainian Embassy,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in July 2017. </span></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Grassley and Johnson, writing this week in a letter to Attorney General William P. Barr, again mentioned the allegations as a matter they intend to investigate. </b></div><div>
</div><div>“Ukrainian efforts, abetted by a U.S. political party, to interfere in the 2016 election should not be ignored,” the senators wrote. “Such allegations of corruption deserve due scrutiny, and the American people have a right to know when foreign forces attempt to undermine our democratic processes,” the senators wrote in the letter.</div><div>
</div><div>Correction:An earlier version of this story misidentified Sen. Charles Grassley’s committee chairmanship. The story has been corrected.</div><div>
</div><div>Rachel Weiner contributed to this report.</div><div>
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</div><div>Josh Dawsey</div><div>Josh Dawsey is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 2017. He previously covered the White House for Politico, and New York City Hall and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the Wall Street Journal. Follow </div><div>
</div><div>Tom Hamburger</div><div>Tom Hamburger is an investigative reporter on the national desk of The Washington Post. He has covered the White House, Congress and regulatory agencies, with a focus on money and politics. Follow </div><div>
</div><div>Paul Sonne</div><div>Paul Sonne covers the U.S. military and national security. He previously reported for the Wall Street Journal from Moscow, London and Washington. Follow </div><div>
</div><div>Rosalind S. Helderman</div><div>Rosalind Helderman is a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2001. Follow </div><div>We dig deeper.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Two South Florida businessmen from the former Soviet Union could find themselves dragged into an impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump over their political activities in Ukraine.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were cited — although not by name — in a government whistleblower complaint <a href="https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812-whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">released</a> Thursday alleging improper behavior by the president. Parnas and Fruman helped introduce Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, into top Ukrainian political circles, according to widespread media accounts.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/official-readout-president-trump-s-july-25-phone-call-with-ukraine-s-volodymyr-zelensky/4b228f51-17e7-45bc-b16c-3b2643f3fbe0/" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">July 25 telephone call</a> between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to announce an impeachment inquiry earlier this week. During the call, Trump pressured his counterpart to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, sparking the whistleblower complaint and widespread public concern <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/26/republican-senators-romney-sasse-thune-raise-concerns-trump-ukraine-call-ebof-vpx.cnn" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">even from the administration’s Republican allies in Congress</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The connections and associates which Giuliani had on President Trump’s behalf in Ukraine ... those really should be the heart of the investigative process,” said Kenneth F. McCallion, a former federal prosecutor and attorney for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko in the United States.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reached on his cellphone Thursday, Parnas called the impeachment inquiry a “soap opera” and defended Trump.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“[Personally], it’s a headache. It’s upsetting, being dragged into something like this,” he said.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Parnas said Ukraine’s government has access to information on alleged wrongdoing by the Bidens and U.S. officials overseas — but that the U.S. government proved indifferent to receiving it through official channels. Thanks to his friendship with Giuliani, he said, he and Fruman became the best people to get it into the Trump administration’s hands. The information could affect the 2020 election.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I got certain information and I thought it was my duty to hand it over,” he said. He declined to comment on the details of his relationship with Giuliani, although he said the former New York City mayor was his lawyer as well as friend.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Giuliani hoped to gather information damaging to Trump’s rivals, experts have largely dismissed claims that a conspiracy was afoot. Joe and Hunter Biden have denied wrongdoing.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Parnas’ and Fruman’s newfound political prominence, including major donations to GOP candidates, belies a history of financial troubles.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Parnas is a former stockbroker who was threatened last year with eviction from a $5,500-per-month home in Boca Raton, court records show. His company was evicted in 2015 for failing to pay rent. The Ukrainian-American businessman is also at the center of a $325,000 donation to a pro-Trump super PAC that is <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/pro-trump-super-pac-got-illegal-contributions-complaint-alleges" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">under scrutiny from federal regulators</a>. Details about that contribution were revealed only when an investor sued Parnas over a loan made for an unmade film Parnas was promoting called “Anatomy of an Assassin.”</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fruman, a real estate investor who also runs a New York import-export business dealing in coffee, baby food, ketchup and dairy products, and Parnas also allegedly bragged about their alliances with Republican power brokers like Giuliani and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in order to procure a six-figure loan from an investor for a natural gas business they run. But the men struggled to pay the investor back on time, leading to a lawsuit.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Their political efforts have met with some success.</b> A month after meeting with Giuliani, Parnas and Fruman earlier this year,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Ukrainian prosecutors announced an investigation into whether officials had attempted to swing the election in favor of Hillary Clinton, according to a <a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/meet-the-florida-duo-helping-giuliani-dig-dirt-for-trump-in-ukraine" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">detailed profile</a> of Parnas and Fruman’s activities by Buzzfeed News and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Trump called the allegations “big” and “incredible” on Fox News.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The whistleblower complaint expressed concern that Trump is “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.” It repeatedly mentioned the role of Giuliani in Ukraine. And in three footnotes, the whistleblower cites media reports revealing how Parnas and Fruman were instrumental. The complaint refers to the men as “two associates of Mr. Giuliani.”</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Giuliani has <a href="https://twitter.com/rudygiuliani/status/1129761193755910144" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">confirmed</a> Parnas and Fruman are his legal clients.</b> Fruman could not be reached Thursday. Attorneys who have represented him did not respond to requests for comment. Giuliani has said his efforts in Ukraine had the full support of the president.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Reuters reporter last week <a href="https://twitter.com/AramRoston/status/1175156459140722688?s=20" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">saw</a> Giuliani and Parnas sitting at a table together at Trump’s hotel in Washington, D.C.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Parnas, Fruman and their natural-gas company, Global Energy Producers, have given more than $400,000 to Republican candidates and committees supporting them in federal elections</b>. The vast majority of that money has gone to committees supporting Trump, but Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott is the next biggest beneficiary. In 2018, Fruman gave $15,000 to a joint-fundraising committee backing Scott’s Senate race. They also gave $50,000 to the campaign of DeSantis, a Trump ally, in June 2018 and $35,000 combined to a committee supporting failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Together, Parnas and Fruman joined Donald Trump Jr. for breakfast in Beverly Hills last year, a deleted social media post obtained by BuzzFeed/OCCRP shows.<b> Both men have been spotted at Trump properties, including Mar-a-Lago</b>, according to published reports. Another photo shows Parnas at the White House with Trump earlier this year.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the website of his current company, Fraud Guarantee, Parnas lists one of his early business ventures as “shipping the first containers of freight between the United States and the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s.” Fraud Guarantee, where he is co-founder and CEO, protects investors “from losses due to fraud,” according to the website. Parnas has been repeatedly sued over alleged unpaid debts and rents in Palm Beach County courts. (“I don’t know anybody that has only good in their business,” Parnas said Thursday. “I’ve never done anything illegal, I’ve never been charged, I’ve never been near anything like that.”)</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to his interests in real estate and shipping, Fruman is the president of the Ukrainian-based Otrada Luxury Group, which sells cars, jewelry, boats, food and alcohol, according to a <a href="http://www.otrada-luxury.com/files/PRESENTATION_OTRADA_FINAL.pdf" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">company pamphlet</a>. He lives in Sunny Isles Beach, public records show, which is also the location of Seafront Properties, LLC, for which he is the registered agent. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He has “personal ties” to a powerful businessman in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa called “the Grey Cardinal” who is believed to associate with organized crime figures, <a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/meet-the-florida-duo-helping-giuliani-dig-dirt-for-trump-in-ukraine" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">according to OCCRP</a>, an international consortium of investigative journalists.</span></font></p><h3 mcclatchy="McClatchy" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" var="var" hw="hw" text-transform="text-transform" ht="ht" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" px="px" max-width="max-width" padding="padding" margin-right="margin-right" auto="auto" margin-left="margin-left" clear="clear" both="both" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE EASTERN FRONT</font></h3><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On May 17, 2018, a Delaware shell company called Global Energy Producers contributed $325,000 t<b>o America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC, </b>according to federal campaign finance records. Parnas was described as the CEO of the firm and Fruman as the president in unrelated documents.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was their big introduction into GOP politics and a world of international intrigue.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The next year, Parnas would prove crucial in setting up meetings between Giuliani and former Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko</b>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/politics/giuliani-ukraine-trump.html" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">according to the New York Times</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Giuliani was said to be primarily seeking two things: Information about how material damaging to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was publicly leaked in Ukraine. And an agreement from Ukraine’s government to investigate the involvement of Biden’s son in a Ukrainian energy company, which could hinder Biden’s campaign against Trump in the 2020 presidential election.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks to Parnas, Giuliani spoke on the phone with Lutsenko and met with him for several hours in New York City in January, the Times reported. They reportedly met again in Warsaw in February.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“[Lutsenko] brought documentation, verification. It opened Giuliani’s eyes,” Parnas told reporters at Buzzfeed and OCCRP, saying the i<b>nformation could aid Attorney General William Barr’s inquiry into the origins of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, as well as the 2020 election.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s all going to come out,” Parnas added. “Something terrible happened and we’re finally going to get to the bottom of it.”</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;" /><figure class="photo-inline-horizontal" mcclatchy="McClatchy" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px 0px; flex: 0 0 auto; position: relative; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; clear: both;"><div class="img-container picture " style="box-sizing: inherit;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/estados-unidos/n33icd/picture224671275/alternates/FREE_1140/AFP_1CB49R" media="(min-width: 992px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/estados-unidos/n33icd/picture224671275/alternates/FREE_960/AFP_1CB49R" media="(min-width: 768px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/estados-unidos/n33icd/picture224671275/alternates/FREE_768/AFP_1CB49R" media="(min-width: 601px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/estados-unidos/n33icd/picture224671275/alternates/FREE_640/AFP_1CB49R" media="(min-width: 441px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/estados-unidos/n33icd/picture224671275/alternates/FREE_480/AFP_1CB49R" media="(min-width: 320px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></source></source></source></source></font></picture><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 1140px; margin: 0px auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in the East Room of the White House in July 2018]</font></figcaption></div></figure><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;" /><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">All told, Parnas and Fruman introduced Giuliani to three current and former Ukrainian prosecutors, according to OCCRP.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Although both men have claimed to open doors in Ukraine for Giuliani, neither is registered as a foreign agent with the U.S. Justice Department. Whether they need to is murky, in part, because of Giuliani’s unusual status as someone doing the bidding of the U.S. president while not actually an appointed official.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After the Times story in May, Giuliani canceled his planned visit to Ukraine.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He did however meet with an adviser to Ukraine’s president in Madrid in August, according to the whistleblower complaint.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The $325,000 donation to the Trump super PAC was the subject of a <a href="https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2018-07/SIGNED%2007-25-18%20GEP%20LLC%20Straw%20Donor%20Complaint.pdf" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">complaint</a> by a nonpartisan watchdog group to the Federal Election Commission last year. The<b> Campaign Legal Center </b>said Global Energy Partners did not have assets required to make such a hefty donation and that the funds had in fact come from an unknown source.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’ve seen that these two shady characters managed to buy their way into Trump world with a $325,000 super PAC contribution and then leveraged the access the contribution afforded to push this highly dubious scheme in Ukraine,” Brendan Fischer of the Campaign Legal Center said in an interview Thursday.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More details about the source of the money have been revealed in a civil lawsuit filed in federal court.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the lawsuit, an investor in a movie-deal-gone-bad won a judgment worth more than $500,000 plus interest against Parnas. Wire transfers unveiled in the lawsuit showed that the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">money had not been donated to the Trump super PAC by Global Energy Partners but by another company managed by Parnas, according to a <a href="https://campaignlegal.org/update/new-wire-transfer-records-reveal-shady-foreign-ties-pro-trump-super-pac" target="blank" rel="Follow" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">supplemental complaint</a> lodged by the CLC in June.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“America First Action violated the law by filing this false report, which has kept the public in the dark about the true sources of its support. Parnas, Fruman, or others who engineered this scheme also violated the law by laundering the contribution through LLCs,” the complaint stated. “But we still don’t know where the money actually came from. The FEC should find out.”</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">America First Action said it could not comment on “ongoing legal matters.”</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We take our legal obligations seriously and scrupulously<b> comply with the law,</b>” the group said in a statement.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Parnas said Thursday the money came from the sale of a Miami-area condo and that the donation was legitimate. On Thursday, the Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giulianis-ukraine-henchmen-made-big-donation-to-pro-trump-pac" target="blank" rel="Follow" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">published</a> a story confirming that a company linked to Fruman had sold a Bal Harbour condo for $4.1 million.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tony Andre, a South Florida attorney helping the jilted movie investor recover the judgment, said his research has found Parnas’ finances to be opaque.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“His financial dealings seem questionable when you consider his history of non-payments of debts,” Andre said Thursday.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;" /><figure class="photo-inline-horizontal" mcclatchy="McClatchy" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px 0px; flex: 0 0 auto; position: relative; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; clear: both;"><div class="img-container picture " style="box-sizing: inherit;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/opinion-es/vfzmp2/picture235474917/alternates/FREE_1140/Trump%20Ucrania%20opinion.JPG" media="(min-width: 992px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/opinion-es/vfzmp2/picture235474917/alternates/FREE_960/Trump%20Ucrania%20opinion.JPG" media="(min-width: 768px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/opinion-es/vfzmp2/picture235474917/alternates/FREE_768/Trump%20Ucrania%20opinion.JPG" media="(min-width: 601px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/opinion-es/vfzmp2/picture235474917/alternates/FREE_640/Trump%20Ucrania%20opinion.JPG" media="(min-width: 441px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.elnuevoherald.com/opinion-es/vfzmp2/picture235474917/alternates/FREE_480/Trump%20Ucrania%20opinion.JPG" media="(min-width: 320px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></source></source></source></source></font></picture><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 1140px; margin: 0px auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix President Donald Trump meets with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the United Nations on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. </font></figcaption></div></figure><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;" /><h3 mcclatchy="McClatchy" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" var="var" hw="hw" text-transform="text-transform" ht="ht" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" px="px" max-width="max-width" padding="padding" margin-right="margin-right" auto="auto" margin-left="margin-left" clear="clear" both="both" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MYSTERY MEN</font></h3><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s not clear how Parnas, Fruman and New York’s former mayor got to know each other.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Giuliani has been mixed into the complicated Ukrainian political scene for more than a decade. A confidential State Department cable, sent from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev back to headquarters and published by Wikileaks, described how Giuliani was seeking to help former heavyweight boxing champion Vitaliy Klitschko in his bid to enter the political ring there.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to <a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/meet-the-florida-duo-helping-giuliani-dig-dirt-for-trump-in-ukraine" target="self" rel="Follow" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">BuzzFeed/OCCRP</a>, Parnas came to the United States in 1976 when he was 4.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A check of Parnas on the website <a href="https://brokercheck.finra.org/individual/summary/2418073" target="blank" rel="Follow" style="text-decoration: var(--ld); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">BrokerCheck</a>, operated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), shows him associated with three companies that have been expelled from the industry’s self-regulating body</span>. Parnas worked in the securities business since 1994, sometimes using the name Larry Parnell, but has not been a registered broker since 2009, when the North Miami Beach company he worked for, Basis Financial, LLC, was expelled.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a settlement with the body, Basis Financial’s owners admitted to a range of misrepresentations and misconduct and FINRA determined the company <b>failed to establish anti-money-laundering policies.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2003, another Parnas-associated company, Program Trading Corp., in Boca Raton, was expelled from FINRA. Parnas had a stake of 25-to-50 percent in the company, through his Florida company Aaron Investment Group, according to documents. FINRA expelled the company after it refused to pay fines and settle with the National Association of Securities Dealers, which accused Program Trading of malfeasance.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Parnas was also a broker in the mid 1990s with Euro-Atlantic Securities, Inc. That firm was at the center of a <b>stock fraud prosecution in New York in 2001</b> involving several alleged organized crime figures. Parnas had left the company by the time indictments were brought for stock-price manipulation.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has never been personally charged.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;" /><figure class="photo-inline-square mugshot" mcclatchy="McClatchy" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px 0px; flex: 0 0 auto; position: relative; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; clear: right; width: 390px; float: right;"><div class="img-container picture " style="box-sizing: inherit;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><source srcset="https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/kz6qya/picture235502987/alternates/FREE_1140/Fruman_2016.jpg" media="(min-width: 992px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/kz6qya/picture235502987/alternates/FREE_960/Fruman_2016.jpg" media="(min-width: 768px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/kz6qya/picture235502987/alternates/FREE_768/Fruman_2016.jpg" media="(min-width: 601px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/kz6qya/picture235502987/alternates/FREE_640/Fruman_2016.jpg" media="(min-width: 441px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/kz6qya/picture235502987/alternates/FREE_480/Fruman_2016.jpg" media="(min-width: 320px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></source></source></source></source></font></picture><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 1140px; margin: 0px auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Igor Fruman with President Donald Trump. Fruman is referenced — but not by name — in the whistleblower complaint pertaining to Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president.</font></figcaption></div></figure><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;" /><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Born in Belarus, Fruman spent years in Ukraine before migrating to Miami where, in 2005, he married Yelyzaveta Naumova, also a Ukrainian national. Naumova filed for divorce in 2017, records show.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fruman ran an import/export business and owned a boutique hotel in Odessa, Ukraine, according to BuzzFeed/OCCRP. A milk canning plant he invested in went bankrupt after going nearly $25 million in debt, the news organizations reported.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March, Russian-born businessman Felix Vulis sued Fruman and Parnas after Global Energy Producers failed to pay back a $100,000 loan from Vulis last September. The two parties agreed to a settlement for an undisclosed amount last month.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In order to procure the loan, Fruman and his associates at GEP bragged about his connections to Giuliani, the complaint said. In March of 2018, Fruman and Parnas attended a Trump donor meeting at Mar-a-Lago as a kickoff event for Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to OCCRP. Their biggest donation came two months later.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paperwork for the $325,000 contribution to the Trump super PAC lists a home in Boca Raton as an address for Global Energy Partners. Parnas confirmed it was his residence.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reached Thursday, Victor Imber, the man who owns that home, said “Who is Lev Parnas?” and hung up the phone.</font></p><p style="margin: 8px auto; box-sizing: content-box; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px; clear: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/trump-s-impeachment-saga-stems-from-a-political-hit-job-gone-bad" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/trump-s-impeachment-saga-stems-from-a-political-hit-job-gone-bad</font></a></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="">Counsel to Parnas, Richard L. Yellen in New York, did not respond to requests for comment before deadline.</span><br helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="" /><br helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="" /><span helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="">While the fraud allegations against Parnas were dismissed, the breach of contract claim stuck. </span><a href="https://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/content/judge-arthur-d-spatt" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">U.S. District Judge Arthur D. Spatt</a><span helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style=""> awarded the plaintiff $350,000, which became $510,434.70 with interest and costs.</span><br helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="" /><br helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="" /><span helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="">Parnas is also </span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/pro-trump-super-pac-got-illegal-contributions-complaint-alleges" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">a defendant in another lawsuit</a><span helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style=""> brought by Campaign Legal Center, a Washington nonprofit that accuses him, business partner Igor Fruman and Global Energy Producers LLC of violating campaign finance laws with a $325,000 donation to pro-Trump, super-PAC America First Action Inc.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gsc-webResult gsc-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; zoom: 1; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gs-webResult gs-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="gsc-thumbnail-inside" style="line-height: inherit; 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Texans Are PAC, $250,000, $250,000, $0. National Republican Senatorial Cmte, $146,500, $146,500, $0. 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; box-sizing: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); height: auto; max-width: 70px; max-height: 50px;" /></font></a></div></div><div class="gsc-table-cell-snippet-close" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: inherit; width: 952.266px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></div><div class="gs-bidi-start-align gs-snippet" dir="ltr" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">28, <span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Parman</span> Capital Group, $10,799, $10,799, $0. 29, L3 Technologies, $10,600, $600, $10,000. 30, Tiger Management, $10,400, $10,400, $0. 31, US Concrete ...</font></div><div class="gs-per-result-labels" url="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00031263&cycle=2018&recs=100&type=I" style="line-height: inherit; 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