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Giuliani Associate Sentenced To One Year In Prison In Foreign Donor Case
2 years, 11 months ago

Giuliani Associate Sentenced To One Year In Prison In Foreign Donor Case

Huff Post  

NEW YORK — A Florida man who helped Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information against Joe Biden in Ukraine was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $10,000 Friday in an unrelated campaign finance case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten had urged a sentence of at least three years behind bars, saying the crime had caused “incalculable …

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Giuliani's Ukrainian associate Lev Parnas is convicted of making illegal campaign contributions
3 years, 2 months ago

Giuliani's Ukrainian associate Lev Parnas is convicted of making illegal campaign contributions

Daily Mail  

The illegal contributions included $325,000 given to America First Action Lev Parnas, a business associate of Rudy Giuliani, was found guilty of multiple campaign finance charges on Friday, including funneling foreign money to a political action committee that backed former President Trump. Lev Parnas, Ukrainian-American businessman and former Giuliani associate is pictured leaving the United States Court with his lawyer …

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Giuliani associates face trial in campaign finance scheme
3 years, 2 months ago

Giuliani associates face trial in campaign finance scheme

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Lev Parnas once pitched himself in TV interviews and through an unorthodox publicity campaign by his lawyer as someone who could expose corruption in the Trump Administration over its dealings in Ukraine. Parnas and another Soviet-born Florida businessman who has already pleaded guilty in the case, Igor Fruman, initially caught the attention of journalists and investigators after …

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Federal Investigators Search Rudy Giuliani's Apartment Over Ukraine Ties
3 years, 8 months ago

Federal Investigators Search Rudy Giuliani's Apartment Over Ukraine Ties

NPR  

Federal Investigators Search Rudy Giuliani's Apartment Over Ukraine Ties Enlarge this image toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Carolyn Kaster/AP Federal investigators in Manhattan executed a search warrant Wednesday at Rudy Giuliani's apartment as part of a probe into the former New York City mayor's activities involving Ukraine, his attorney told NPR. He said the search warrants are connected to an investigation …

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Giuliani probe awaits Garland as he nears AG confirmation
3 years, 10 months ago

Giuliani probe awaits Garland as he nears AG confirmation

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — With Merrick Garland poised to be confirmed as attorney general as early as next week, one of the first major questions he is likely to encounter is what to do about Rudy Giuliani. A federal probe into the overseas and business dealings of the former New York City mayor and close ally of former President Donald Trump …

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Defendant pleads guilty in Rudy Giuliani associates’ case
4 years, 2 months ago

Defendant pleads guilty in Rudy Giuliani associates’ case

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Prosecutors secured a guilty plea Thursday from a Florida businessman who hired one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, to lend credibility to a supposedly fraud-busting company authorities say was a fraud itself. The charge directly related to Fraud Guarantee was added last month to a broader criminal case against two men, Lev Parnas and Igor …

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Prosecutors: More Charges Possible In Case Of Giuliani Associates Parnas, Fruman
5 years, 1 month ago

Prosecutors: More Charges Possible In Case Of Giuliani Associates Parnas, Fruman

NPR  

Prosecutors: More Charges Possible In Case Of Giuliani Associates Parnas, Fruman Enlarge this image toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Mark Lennihan/AP Updated at 4:49 p.m. ET Prosecutors could bring more charges in the case of two Soviet-born associates of Rudy Giuliani — although it wasn't precisely clear when, what or who else might be involved after a conference in New York …

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Ukrainian gas executive cooperating in US probe of Giuliani
5 years, 1 month ago

Ukrainian gas executive cooperating in US probe of Giuliani

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are planning to interview an executive with Ukraine’s state-owned gas company as part of an ongoing probe into the business dealings of Rudy Giuliani and two of his Soviet-born business associates. Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating the business dealings of Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, including whether he failed to register as a …

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Opinion: Human ‘hand grenade’ Giuliani wants Biden’s work in Ukraine investigated. What about his own?
5 years, 2 months ago

Opinion: Human ‘hand grenade’ Giuliani wants Biden’s work in Ukraine investigated. What about his own?

LA Times  

John Bolton’s most accurate threat assessment when he was President Trump’s national security advisor may have been his description of former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani as a “hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up.” A former colleague of Bolton’s in the White House, Fiona Hill, reportedly shared Bolton’s description of Giuliani on Monday at a private …

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Florida men tied to Giuliani, Ukraine probe arrested
5 years, 2 months ago

Florida men tied to Giuliani, Ukraine probe arrested

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Two Florida businessmen tied to President Donald Trump’s lawyer and the Ukraine impeachment investigation were charged with federal campaign finance violations. The indictment also charges that Kukushkin conspired with the three other defendants to make political contributions, funded by a foreign national, to politicians seeking state and federal office “to gain influence with candidates as to policies that …

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2 men tied to Trump lawyer Giuliani arrested on campaign charges
5 years, 3 months ago

2 men tied to Trump lawyer Giuliani arrested on campaign charges

Al Jazeera  

Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman are accused of conspiring to ‘funnel foreign money to candidates for federal and state office’. Washington, DC – Two business associates of US President Donald Trump‘s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have been arrested over violations of campaign finance laws, US prosecutors in New York said on Thursday. Parnas and Fruman have been charged with making illegal …

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Two men connected to Giuliani’s Ukraine efforts charged with funneling foreign money into US election
5 years, 3 months ago

Two men connected to Giuliani’s Ukraine efforts charged with funneling foreign money into US election

CNN  

CNN — Two associates of Rudy Giuliani connected to efforts to dig up dirt in Ukraine on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden were arrested trying to leave the country and indicted on criminal charges for allegedly funneling foreign money into US elections. Federal prosecutors were not intending to unseal the indictment against the Giuliani associates and two others Thursday, according …

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